Add more locations to sync photos from

Hi everyone
I use iTunes on my PC (Win 7 OS) to sync music, files and photos to my iPad. On my PC I have the default Pictures location for recent photos and use a separate hard drive for older photos - they are all in my library on the PC so I can view them all at once even though they are on different hard drives.
I would love to be able to get all these photos in my Win 7 library synced to my iPad, but it only does the ones in Pictures and ignores the others in my Windows library. Can I get it to sync the whole library in Windows 7? In iTunes there seems to be no option to have extra locations to sync from - I can change the location from Pictures to somewhere else on my PC but then I lose the photos in Pictures and I want them all to sync!
Can anyone help please?
Many thanks.

iOS and iPod: Syncing photos using iTunes
Another way. You can use a USB flash drive & the camera connection kit.
Plug the USB flash drive into your computer & create a new folder titled DCIM. Then put your movie/photo files into the folder. The files must have a filename with exactly 8 characters long (no spaces) plus the file extension (i.e., my-movie.mov; DSCN0164.jpg).
Now plug the flash drive into the iPad using the camera connection kit. Open the Photos app, the movie/photo files should appear & you can import. (You can not export using the camera connection kit.)
Secrets of the iPad Camera Connection Kit
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57401068-285/secrets-of-the-ipad-camera-conn ection-kit/
 Cheers, Tom

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