Re-map music files

Here's my situation:
I have my iTunes library on a NAS drive, and iTunes is set to find it there. Recently I have discovered that some of the songs are incorrectly mapped to random files - not music files, but pdfs, pages files, etc - on another drive. Is there a way I can have itunes re-find and remap my library? I tried deleting the .itl file and restarting iTunes, remapping to the NAS drive, and consolidating files, but that didn't work so I brought the old .itl file back, but still have the same problem.
Any thoughts?

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I was lucky to be able to use a PC, that after trying numerous times actually read the external hdd, I quickly copied all files over to a backup hdd and recovered all files. After that I ended up in contact with Western Digital about the incident and they recommended to completely erase (7-pass erase) of the hdd, which ended up taking over 5 days to do. They gave me no reason as to "Why" it would have happened but if I erase and reformatted of the hdd and the problem reoccurred they recommended to get the unit replaced.
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