Not everything has saved in my itunes library

Help!!!
I have just got a new laptop and am trying to transfer all my music. I backed up everything from my old laptop onto disc and restored it to my new laptop. However it has only restored 800 out of 2000 songs. On closer inspection my old itune library hadn't saved all the songs to the c drive library (a tick box apparently wasn't ticked) how do i get them all in my old library to back up again?
Is i just copy and paste it changes the name of all the songs back to track 1 etc.

In some previous version ITunes automatically made a copy of your music in your ITunes Music Library. At some point some genius decided that you should be able to add things to your library by copying them over, without it actually making a copy in My Documents\My Music (presumably because they though they were creating duplicates). Anyway, what you have to do now is on your old computer go to Edit, Preferences, Advanced, and then check the checkbox that says "Copy files to the iTunes Music folder when adding to library", and click OK. Then go to the Advanced pulldown menu and select Consolidate library. That will root through everywhere from whence you copied stuff into iTunes and put a copy into Itunes. Then when you install iTunes on your new PC make sure you've selected the settings above so that when you copy your library in to itunes, it'll make a full copy where you expect it to be and you can back it up etc, and so forth.

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