Assigning iTunes to a new internal drive

I installed a new 750gb internal drive in my sony vaio. I made a new itunes folder and copied all of my music to that folder in the new drive.
I assigned iTunes to recognize that path as my default, but now when I start iTunes I get an error saying that the song can not be found.
I also am noticing that there are double entries of songs in my itunes. If I bring up an album I see that there are doubles of each song in the album.
I am looking for a step by step way to set iTunes to recognize my internal hard drive and solve this issue of double music please.
I am running a Windows XP Home Edition OS.
Thank you!!!

Resetting the location of the iTunes Music folder in the iTunes preferences, by itself, only sets where future purchases and imports go. In and of itself it won't reset where iTunes looks for tracks already in the iTunes library. Normally what you want to do is reset the location of the iTunes Music folder in the iTunes preferences, then do the Consolidate Library command so that iTunes copies the existing tracks to the new location itself. Then it will reset all the locations so that iTunes can correctly find everything.
As it is now, the easiest thing will probably to delete everything from the iTunes library listing (not the tracks from the external, just the listings in iTunes), then use the Add To Library command and select the folder on the second drive containing your music. You'll have to recreate any playlists and you'll lose all your ratings, etc., but you should get back all your content.

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