Itunes wont open / load!! Help plz!

I have a relatively new laptop and started adding songs to itunes before I synced it to my iphone. I tried to open it 2days ago but it simply wont load/open/start. I have ehausted all ideas including uninstalling, reinstalling, repairing itunes, updating quicktime, running as adminstator, running via windows xp and system restores to name but a few but it simpy will not work. I click the icon the blue loading icon runs for about 1 second then nothing. I have a windows 8 64bit laptop if that makes any difference. Has anyone got any ideas what I could try?
Many Thanks

A usb hard drive that Windows sees doesn't need software for a simple back up.
Format the hard drive Disk Management, if it doesn't come already formatted, and then drag and drop the iTunes folder and whatever other data you want to back up to it.
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