Need help changing location of music files on my compute

I purchased a separate hard drive to store my itunes music files. I copied the music from the default location on my hard drive to the new hard drive. How do I change the path on the iTunes site to the new hard drive location?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Undo what you've done, and follow these directions to consolidate your library:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1364?viewlocale=en_US
Also, you might consider giving your exHD a letter pretty far down in the alphabet, so when you plug in other USB devices, the drive letter won't change in Windows. That can cause itunes to lose the path to your music with the ! file not found message.

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