Can I put my iTunes Library on a portable hard drive?

I have an 80gb Portable Hard drive for storing music on. is there a way to store and access that music from itunes?
Inspiron 1100 Windows XP

I thnk this link from MacMuse may be just what you need. I ran iTunes off an EHD on my old PC due to lack of HD space & it worked great.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121879

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