ITunes after reformatting

I have iTunes on my C drive and my music on my D drive. I had to reformat my C drive and reinstall my OS and iTunes back on that drive but now I'm not sure how to link the music on the D drive back to iTunes. Before I reformatted my C drive I backed up my music library on a DVD so I not sure if I even need to use that backup since the music is still there on the D drive. Also when iTunes is linked backup with my D drive will all the catagories still be there; artist, genre, album, etc. or will I have to do all that manually?
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when iTunes is linked backup with my D drive will all the catagories still be there; artist, genre, album, etc. or will I have to do all that manually?
This all depends on how you backed up, what you will basicly be looking for is the "iTunes Music Library.xml"
Now you will have this file on the C drive, but its blank, you will look for this file on your DVD backup or the D drive.
By default this file is in my music/itunes folder so if you copied that folder you should have it on the back up or D drive.

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