How to restore itunes library after a drive got corrupted

I have iTunes on my PC. I have my media on D drive while library file on C drive.
My C drive got corrupted and my computer started showing Blue Screen of Death. I tried every thing possible but was not able to restore any files from that drive. I had to reformat the drive and reinstall windows 7 again.
Since D drive was fine all my songs, videos, movies, apps and books are fine. How can I restore my library as is. There is no option to add the whole folder in iTunes. There are a lot of files to add individually. Please help.

Restore all of your important data from the backup of the computer.
If you have no backup, the library and playlists should be possible to recreate by following the instrucitons here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451

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