I had to reformat my PC and put my itunes on an external hard  drive.

I reformatted my comuter and placed my Itunes on a external hard drive and I moved them back and they are under an XML document file and won't open. Any help to restore my Itunes to my computer?

I'm sure when it was taken to reformat, he just put everything from my computer onto the external.  I know he did't save them to any back up disc's.  When he moved everything back is when I lost my Itunes library and it only shows as that XML.  I do have an old back up I can restore most.
Any way to import from my touch what is on it, I have not connected it to my PC since.
I did get all my music purchased on, but under purchased I can't find my movies.
Thank you!!

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