New computer, can't carry library from ext. HD

Just bought new computer last night. iTunes library has been stored on external hard drive for some time now. Installed iTunes on new computer, no music found. Default iTunes music folder location under Preferences was C:/My Music/iTunes... Changed it to F:/SimpleDrive/My Music/iTunes music... Still no music in my library. I am certain the HD is properly connected because I can play songs from my library on Windows Media. Feel like I'm missing a step here. Please help! Thanks!

iTunes keeps track of a library through the database file (.itl) found in the iTunes folder. iTunes does not automatically find music in a folder or on a drive. So on your old computer, there should be an ITL and an XML file in the iTunes folder. If you copy those to the new computer overwriting the ones there, iTunes should then see your library. Those database files contain what is in your iTunes library, among other things, so without the old one, iTunes has no library until you add stuff to it.
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