How do I get iTunes to automatically put songs in?

I had to reinstall XP. All of my music was backed up but not the playlist. Is there any way to make iTunes search the computer and add all of the music files to the iTunes library? Or am I stuck adding them one album at a time? Thanks

Unfortunatly the company that I bought my computer from put the itunes back on the computer. I was trying to combine two different libraries and it didn't like it. So I just want iTunes to search my hard drive and add all of the music back into it. Does that make any sense?

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Ok, we've had a problem with our external hard drive which holds all of our music files (our H drive). It's the 2nd time going down and we're just chalking it up as a failure. Fortunately, we had it all backed up onto another external hard drive (our G drive). We re-did iTunes back in February (bringing all the files in, sorting, playlists, etc) after fixing it the first time. So I have that exact files from then (on the G drive) minus a new CD or two, nothing major. But when I open that iTunes library, it doesn't find the music that is connected to it - even though all the music is in the folder connected to the library (all in G drive). I'm not sure if this file is still trying to look for my H drive folder.
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