ITunes can't find my tracks on external HDD on new install of windows 7?

Hi I have just installed windows 7 and am trying to move all of my music onto it..I save all of my music onto an external HDD and enable itunes so that it copies all my tracks onto there. I have exported the library file and loaded that into the new installation of iTunes on windows 7 however, loads of the files are missing and it came up with the error saying it couldn't find some of them. Why is this!? They are definitely all on my HDD as I use this with 2 pcs already and use both PCs with the external HDD to play music with no problems. So why is this happening?
Please help me out. Thanks very much

If you try to start iTunes with the external drive disconnected, iTunes will default back to the internal drive.
DO you know if you have your iTunes folder containing the library files on the internal drive or the external drive.
If the iTunes folder that you are using is on the internal drive then you need to set the location of the iTunes Music folder with Edit>>Preferences>>Advanced.
IF you had your iTunes folderon the external drive, hold down the shift key and start iTunes. Keep holding the shift key until you are prompted to choose a library. Navigate to the iTunes folder on the external drive and choose iTunes Library.itl.

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