Auto search for & add missing tracks?

so i lost a harddrive w/ a lot of itunes on it. fixed the harddrive, plugged it back in. trouble is, a lot of songs in itunes are now orphaned from their location. i have a lot of music- 70,000 songs, spread across 3 diff't hard drives. what i want to accomplish here is have itunes scan its library and auto update the missing/orphaned tracks with the "!" symbol so i can see which tracks are missing. no way i am going to click on each track to check its status.
any suggestions as to how to accomplish the above (i was hoping to see a "status" sort bar along with the other options in itunes, but there isn't one) as well as how to approach this situation in the most effective way to get my itunes library back on track.
(i don't want to just do a mass paste of my hard drive mp3s into itunes again b/c i'll end up with a lot of duplicates of the tunes taht are already okay).
does itunes have the function of autoscanning all my drives and finding those mp3s taht i haven't yet added and/or those mp3s that it has in its itunes music listing but that it didn't have the drive location of?
thanks.
Message was edited by: peppergomez

because a number of songs (but I don't know which ones) are now on a different HD and need to be readded to itunes, i would like to have itunes do a check to see which files are missing, so that out of my almost 70,000 tunes, i know precisely which ones to replace.

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