How do I restore my itunes from a ext hard driver?

I have followed the instuctions I have opened both dirves (PC and ext drive) went to Users/Username/music I did a drag drop the file on the ext hard drive told it to replace the one on my PC. I dont thnk its copying it dose it intantly it shows the correct size but nothing is there. I then helf the shift key as I started itunes and seleted choose but then it dosent show up to select.
What am I doing wrong/

If you connect an external hard drive with music, iTunes won't know the music exists there until you tell it. There are two simple ways to tell the application about the music. 1) Drag the folder(s) that contain music files onto the iTunes icon on the Dock or 2) select Add to Library from the File menu and then use the fileselector to select the drive with the music.

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Line 89 was:        Prog=True
Line 89 is now:     Prog=False
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Lines 164-165 were:
'File.WriteLine "<#>" & .Location           ' Not so useful if working with missing tracks
'File.WriteLine "<Album>" & .Album
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