How do I restore music to my iTunes after new hard drive

FIrst of all apologies if this is really simple .... I'm a bit rubbish with technology ! My problem is that I have had to have my hard drive replaced in my laptop  . I have reinstalled iTunes & music I have brought from iTunes is back on there but I had lots of other music in iTunes that I'd ripped from Cd's ( that I no longer have ) . Is there any way of getting it back ?? All of that music is still on my iPod nano (2nd gen I think ) and is also backed up to a file on my external storage device. I did try just plugging my iPod into laptop but it went wrong & my iPod froze ! So I've given up for now until I get some advice . Thanks

Set iTunes to copy the music to the iTunes Media folder in its preferences, or drag the music to the internal drive before putting it into iTunes.
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