Itunes on win re-imaged music directory not readabe?

My old itunes was working fine on win but I upgraded to new image from scratch & installed itunes, it doesn't read the music directory or show any tracks / content / music files from the same hdd location? I tried uninstalling reinstall still problem persists? Help appreciated.

Have you tried these steps?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93647

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