Transferring music to new PC from old split-hard drive PC

Hi hope someone can help,
I currently have a very old PC which I use to manage music and itunes etc. The hard drive is partitioned into 2 halves (C and D drives). Now I have some music on the C drive and others on the D drive. All music goes into iTunes and organised into playlists. I've now got a new laptop and want to transfer the music onto it but it is one drive (C drive).
My question is how can I transfer all the music from my old PC onto the new laptop while also keeping the playlists intact when I move the playlist file to the new laptop?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks- John

See this migrate iTunes library post. Links to a split library repair process in there...
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