Trying to migrate a Windows library over to Mac OS X

Hello all,
I am trying to migrate my music library (iTunes) that I created on a Windoze machine over to my new Mac. For some reason the Windows external drive will not be seen by the Mac machine and I get an error asking if I want to initialize the Windoze external drive. I know that this will format the drive and erase my music. Is there some software or way to simply copy from the external drive to my new computer? Also when I did try to copy from one to the other, it would start and then somewhere in the process it would say: "unable to copy file" or something like this and the entire process would abort and it would have to be started over. It does not say which file is causing the problem so I have no idea where to begin again.
Thanks and hope I explained this okay.

See the following: Geek to Live- How to move an iTunes library from a PC to Mac (and back) and Macworld - How to transfer iTunes libraries between PC and Mac.

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