WHY NO RATING WHEN IMPORTING ITUNES PLAYLIST ???WHY ??? WHY??? WHY ???

i went thru the process of dropping all my music files from a new drive back into ITUNES and imported all the playlists but they all came in minus the ratings ....... 25,000 songs - 600 gb of music ..... re-importing the old library also brought back in all my playlists but still with no ratings .... my entire existence hinges on being to quickly access the 5star system ..... it isn't just that the rating window needs to be turned on .... the option is visible but with no stars ......
let's see 65.7 daze to play 25,000 songs ... i could maybe rate each song again in 30 seconds .... so that is what ???? 20 hours or so if i am truly able to open , evaluate and mark each song ...... hmmmmm ..... more likely gonna take a minute per song ... **** - that's a long 3 daze at best !!!
any help would be a lifesaver ....

thanx for responding !!! .... i see that i misled you a bit by stating that i had dropped my music files from a "new" drive .... it just came time to start over - i had spent a month removing duplicate files & over the last 5 years had amassed so many inconsistencies by backing up drives and then using that drive on another computer , constantly using search functions to locate songs instead of using proper ITUNES protocol for moving these files around.......
so in this most recent , what i was hoping the final stage of re-organizing my ITUNES and maintaining it properly , all the music is still on the same drive i exported my library xml from .... i just deleted the old library - there were thousands of missing songs that would require a one-at-a - time search so i dropped all the music back into ITUNES making it all available assuming that once i imported my old library that it would all correspond - which it does , minus the ratings .....
like you , i have thousands of songs that utilize that simple little star system as a quick look-see for favorites ..... i just don't understand how it isolates out the ratings on the import - so frustrating ....what i don't have then , are the old library or playlists - i exported them and deleted them clearing the path for a fresh import with all the files freshly dropped into ITUNES.... does that make sense ???

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