Recovering overwritten music files

I was attempting to move some music folders that were located on my hardrive to the main music folder on my external hardrive. Noticing that for whatever reason a lot of the bands and albums were duplicated in both hardrives, I decided to replace existing folders with the copies I was making. Upon realizing this had deleted some of the albums for those bands that I had imported directly to my external drive, I undid the copy and put all the folders back onto my hardrive to do each one manually. However, the albums that were apparently overwritten are now gone and erased from my external drive and are nowhere to be found. Whole band folders are gone from my external drive where they had been originally imported. Any suggestions on how to recover these files?
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.8)

You will need a data recovery program such as "Data Rescue X" from ProSoft at http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
If you were trying to Add those file into iTunes it is best to do that function from within iTunes. If you have the "Keep and Copy" options enbaled then iTunes will do the work for you.
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