Unable to access music on external drive

I have recently had to re-install Windows on my laptop - due to a virus. I had previously moved all my music to an external drive and successfully changed itunes to access it there - I changed the location folder in Edit/Preferences/Advanced then held down the shift key whilst launching Itunes thereby getting the option to choose a different library location. I now find that this option no longer appears when I launch Itunes with the shift key held down. I'm using Itunes 6.
Anyone any ideas??
Fortune laptop   Windows XP  

I've now resolved the issue having found an article by Christopher Breen - in it he suggested -
"If you can locate your music files by rummaging around on your hard drive but iTunes seems dead set against showing them, use the Add to Library command in the File menu to find your music and add it again. Before doing so, open the Advanced tab of iTunes' preferences and make sure that the Copy Files to iTunes Music Folder When Adding to Library option is unchecked. With this option unchecked, song titles will be added to iTunes without the songs themselves being copied to the iTunes Music folder."
I tried this and I got all my albums back even though I lost some of my artwork and all of my playlists.... I can live with that!!

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