Trouble importing from external hard-drive

So i used the support tab to copy everything from my library onto my external drive and it worked fine. everything is in my library but I can't use any of it! everytime i try to play a song or something it says it can't be found. Some of the songs i didn't buy on iTunes. Is there a way I can fix this?? I moved my music from my family computer to my new laptop (toshiba with windows 7). Please help!!

If you go to the Apple website it walks to through the steps to do so. You can't just transfer the files there is a special way you have to do it.

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