Music Taking Up too Much Space on my hard drive...

Need some assistance... Have download approx. 30g. of Music Files on my 60 g. 5th. Generation iPod. At the same time I now have 30 g. of back-up files on my laptop hard drive....The music files are now taking up too much memory. I bought an 80 g. external hard drive and have copied all my music files onto it... (Accidentally deleted my downloaded music files last year off of my laptop. An expensive lesson!!! So now I download all music on a seperate external hard drive... Can I delete the existing music files off of my laptop, without losing all the stored music on my Ipod when I reconnect with my library on iTunes? I'd just like to safely remove music files from my laptops hard drive without accidentally deleting music already stored on my ipod! Need the memory on my laptop hard drive for other purposes... Anyone out there that can help me with this? Thanks!!!
iPod Video Windows XP

Make sure in edit>preferences>advanced that you itunes points to its new loaction.
Also make sure that itune has copy music into new folder, and organise folder checks ticked to the on position.
Consolidate your library in itunes.
Then go through an double check each folder before deleting it from original location.
This will "copy" music and organise all your music into one location aswell as build Library.
You can add any folder that is missed as you check everything off.
It will not delete anything so you will need to manually delete as it is shifted.
Alternatively you can copy everything in exporer to the desired location & import entire folder into library. Once done, consilidate library, check for dublicates.

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Look at these links.
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http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum38&Number=770243
Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
Increase HD Free Space
http://macosx.com/forums/howto-faqs/275191-how-easily-increase-hd free-space-laptop.html
How to free up my disk space
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
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