Clearing parts of the library how?

hello, I just got an Ipod and I never used Itunes before I've always had my own system for keeping my music. When I first installed Itunes it imported every music and video file it could find on my computer (with out even asking >:( ). Since I have an external drive that I use as a back-up system I have doubles of everything in the library! Even if I disconnect my external drive it still shows up in the library. How do I get it to clear out the stuff in a certain location on the drive from the library and make it only import certain files?
Thanks,
Meloshski

iTunes only scans the total PC when first installed. it will not do so again.
You'll need to determine what to keep and what to toss. You have both song references within iTunes and song files on the PC to evaluate. You may have duplicates of both type, or just one type.
The usual iTunes default is to copy all song files into the main 'iTunes Music' folder, so you may very well have duplicate copies of your music files.
My suggestion would be to delete the entire music Library within iTunes, then organize your music the way you want (if you do not want iTunes to use its default structure).
Once organized, you can 'File=Add Folder' to add the song references into iTunes. You should do this only after you de-selected the 'Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding' option, otherwise iTunes will make another copy of your PC files.
Make sure you have a good grasp on how iTunes organizes its music folders if you let it, when it copies files and to where it copies them to. From there, you should be able to manage the data as you need.

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