Pleas help with my music files and folders on an external drive

A while back, I thought I had a virus on my C drive and was advised to by an external hard drive to move all my important files and folders to. As an inexperienced computer guy, this eventually led to a problem. I have many folders that shouldn't have been moved, main folders that were broken up, duplicates of songs, some song files that are empty, etc. This doesn't just apply to iTunes folders, it includes all the computer's music folders.
Can you please help me reorganize and delete duplicates (C and external drives)? Is there a quick way to search for song files that will not work? Is there a way to wipe out all iTunes files and start over without losing the songs bought via itunes?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. I think you're in the wrong forum. This is the iDVD forum. If I read your question correctly you probably want the iTunes for Windows forum.
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