New laptop - can't get I-tunes to recognise tune files on hard drive?

Hello. My old sony vaio crashed. I had previously backed up all the music files from I-Tunes onto ext hard drive. Now I have new laptop, loaded I-Tunes and copied all the tunes back from the ext hard drive onto the new laptop. Trouble is I-Tunes won't see 'em, keeps saying something about my library being registered on another machine (guess it's my defunct one?). So is there a way I can get I-Tunes on the new laptop to see the music files I've dragged back from the ext hard drive. I did not back up any other files, system type things - just the tunes. Hope that makes sense and look forward to replies. Cheers - Snoopdougydoug

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+keeps saying something about my library being registered on another machine+
What is the exact message? That doesn't sound familiar. Also, what do you click on just before getting the message?

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