How to reconnect lots of lost or miss filed tracks?

Like lots of others I have a library where I have many tracks which can't be found.  I know that all of the tracks it says are missing are really on my PC its just a case of spending lots of time reconnecting them one at a time.  I usually just open another window & have windows do a search for the title.  It always finds them.  This only fixes one disconnected track & to reconnect all of the tracks that fall into this category with take too long.
Is there any other easier way to reconnect these tracks?  I was thinking along the lines of the way my Video program works where I let the program do a search in an are that I define & once its found the first match it keeps on looking in that same area for more unconnected files.

All of my music files had been copied to an external hard drive before my PC crashed. I'm not certain what drive letter Windows had assigned that drive since I have had so many. In any event I copied all of the music files from that drive onto the folder Windows 7 calls desktop> music files. I'm guessing that this is a 'C' drove.
What I think you are suggesting is that copy the files from the external drive to a different drive or partition on my PC, say 'D' drive & see if i Tunes picks up all of my files. Then if It doesn't do so rename 'D' drive to 'E' etc until I find a drive letter that i Tunes remembers. If It does recognize tracks that it could not find won't the tracks that its currently finding no longer work?
What would happen if I were to tell i Tunes to add any entire extra folder that appears to be missing. I can see that this approach might add more tracks into my library but would this approach result in creating lots of duplicates? I already know that i Tunes does an abysmal job of looking out for duplicates. I have seen on the duplicate lists many tracks that should not appear there. The artists name & song title might be the same but the singer has recorded the same song at different times & the album name & songs duration is different. I have looked at a listing by
an artist & seen real duplicates that aren't on i Tunes official duplicate list.

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