Erasing duplicates and (!) marked songs from library???

My hard drive location changed from G: to H: and now all my music has a ! in front of it (on the left column).
I have imported most of my folders again to itunes, however I have been manually erasing all of the ! marked songs.
Is there a way I can search or find all of the ! marked songs to erase at one time?
Also, any suggestions on how to prevent this happening again?
Thanks a ton!
Seattle Matt

Windows normally handles assigning drive letters automatically. Did you add a new drive? Or perhaps connect a different external USB device?
In any case, it's too late now, but you could have manually told Windows what drive letter to use for which devices.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844

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