ITunes can't find my tracks - please please help, DJ in need to urgent fix!

iTunes cannot find my tracks which have been working fine on my external HDD for a long time. Basically today I have tried to move my library from one external HD to another (due to portability issues) I changed my iTunes media folder location in the preferences to the new drive, and then consolidated my library in order to copy all of the tracks...when I opened up the new library on the new HDD the files could not be found. So I simply decided to change the media folder library back to its old location again so that I could just load up my initial library and go about copying my library in a different way... however, when I went back to the old library location which should not have changed at all, it was also unable to find 99% of the files!
Please help. I cannot recreate my library from scratch as I have 10000 tracks, most of which which are all sorted out into different playlists ready for DJing. The tracks are still on the HDD and I can find them individually, but this is obviously out of the question for such a large library of tracks. Please can someone enlighten me as to how can I relocate them without reconstructing the library?? Thanks very much, i'm pulling my hair out right now with stress!!!

Hey thanks very much for your reply. The original folder was still the H drive because I was trying to move from one exHD to another (one which is much more portable) Also the media folder location definitely shows the correct location of all the tracks. The new library did not work properly so I went back to my old drive in order to try again and follow a guide online so that it would 100% work correctly. However, when going back to the old drive I experienced the problems, so now my main (old) library is not working.
I think the problem lies somewhere along these lines - If you look at the picture closely you can see that the tracks file name is different for some reason before and after manual relocation...
So in the picture above it's originally trying to find the file "02 Serial Killa" and failing. However, after manual location it has realised the file is called "B Shackles - Serial Killa" so for some reason its searching for the wrong filename (I think!?)
Any help will be massively appreciated!! Thanks
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