HT1473 New itunes won't recognise old library after reinstalling on new hard drive.

I had to reinstall itunes when hard drive was replaced.
itunes library is on separate drive. 
How do I get the newly installed itunes to recognise the library without having to manually add 50,000 files?

This is on a windows PC with Vista OS.

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