Deleting items that are no longer on my computer

I've recently installed a new hard drive on my laptop and reinstalled windows. I saved everything from the previous drive..when I installed itunes I am showing duplicates of all songs. I'm thinking there was a setting from my previous drive that was saved but since my songs are now on a d:\ drive instead of the c:\ drive iTunes made an entry from the old drive, then found the songs in the new drive, now there are duplicates. I have over 1000 songs in my list and don't want to delete each entry one by one.
Is there something I can do to eliminate all items from the Music Library that are duplicates and are showing the exclamation icon on the left?
Thanks for your help
Glenn

Go to the Music soource of the library and sort by *Date added*. You should find all the ! marks grouped together into the top or bottom half of the list. They don't necessarily show with a ! until you try to access them in some way, e.g click on file with the artwork preview box visible. It doesn't matter as long as you've ordered them correctly. Simply find the first missing track and click on it, scroll down to the last, hold down shift and click on the last of the group selecting all in between. Now press delete. Confirm you want to remove the files from iTunes. If asked whether files should be deleted click cancel and check on your selection process above.
Not all Podcasts reimport properly so you may find the new copies of some of these are in Music or Movies instead of Podcasts. The same may also be true for some TV shows which may show up in Movies. You may need to change the kind of some of the newly imported movies to Music Video then remove any remaining movies, TV Shows & Podcasts with broken links. Any games can be relinked from the Applications source.
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