Restoring Library Problem

I recently switched my OS from Windows Vista to 7. Prior to the switch I took my itunes folder under MyComputer/Cdrive/Users/MyMusic/Itunes (ex) and moved it onto my external hard drive. I followed the steps outlined on how to back up your itunes on to an external harddrive from one of the guides found on the apple website. All 113 GB were transferred to my external.
After installing Windows 7, I followed the outline to restore my previous itunes, also found in the apple website. This consisted of dragging the Old itunes folder into the current and holding shift while opening itunes and selecting the previous library. I did this and all the songs were listed, but none could be found. I repeated the above method multiple times, uninstalled itunes and tried a couple slight variations of the above. But now that I explore the previous itunes folder, i explore the folders to see that no music is present. I have see hidden selected and I'm still not seeing anything. I don't understand what's going on the folder takes up 113 GB which is consistent with the amount of music i have but the files aren't there!! I really don't want to recover all that music again. Is there anything you can do to help?

Hooray! At least you have it working while your exHD is connected!
From your original post, what you did should have worked. Not sure why it didn't.It has something to do with you posting that nothing was in the folders on the C: drive - obviously a program can't play a file it can't find ,whether it's itunes or WMP.
Let's say your exHD is assigned drive letter M:
What is the path to the main itunes folder? M:\itunes?
With itunes closed, did you use Windows Explorer to copy that to the new PC, copy & pasting M:\itunes to C:\Users\~newusername~\Music\iTunes? Then safely disconnecting the exHD and starting itunes withOUT a shift start? It should automatically open and work. It will have to shift back to C: since it cannot find the ITL from the previous shift-start.

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