Windows XP corruption - Must Reinstall iTunes, New Drive

Briefly:
XP Home Edition became corrupt on failed installs of SP 2.
Must reinstall windows.
As long as I'm at it, I will put in a much bigger new internal Hard Drive for music and photo and data files and keep the old drive for XP and applications only.
How to do this?
First I will shift all data and music files
Next, reformat and wipe the old drive and reinstall -- don't think I can chance just reinstalling windows over the corrupt files.
I got the instructions on how to move the iTunes music library files to a new drive.
My questions are about the iTunes app itself:
1. do I need to deauthorize and uninstall? or
2. can I just wipe the drive and reinstall from CD and update from website w/o deauthorizing and uninstalling first?
Most of my music is from my own CDs, but I have purchased a few albums and tracks from the iTunes store and do not want to lose them.

I had to put in a new motherboard and wasn't able to de-authorize that in advance, since the PC wouldn't even boot up.
I was able to deauthorize it twice, after reapir.
And then reauthorize to get my 'authorized PC' count set correctly at one.

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