Transfer film purchases to a new PC

Hello,
I wonder whether you can help me, this is my first posting on Apple support community.
I have purchased a number of films from apple and backed them up to an external hard drive. I have purchased a new PC and copied the films and music files from the external drive to the same folder structure on my new PC
When I go into Itunes store and select the purchased items option, it shows the films as not on my PC and wants to download them again ???
Why does it need to download them again.
Thanks for any help
Regards,
Jamie

Hi,
Thanks for the quick response. I have coppied all of the contents to the new computer but when I click on the "purchased" button from the home page, it still lists all of the films as not being on the computer

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5625
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