Transfer itunes music from flash drive to new pc

I have a new PC, HP Envy.   I had previously copied my Music, etc. onto ex-hard-drive from my old PC but do not know how to get this music onto my new PC.   I have an I-Pod which I attach to my computer on occasions to update it.  I have just downloaded I-Tunes 11.0.5.5 but dont know where to go from here.   I also thought that I-Tunes held backups of ones music, is this so?

Drag it to the internal drive and then into the open iTunes application window. If the external drive contains an entire iTunes library, you can also launch iTunes with the Shift key held down and point it there.
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