External harddrive issue

I recently moved all my iTunes files to an external hard drive by consolidating them there. I then removed my iTunes folder. Later my computer crashed and I had to reinstall iTunes. Now the information shows up in my iTunes but it can't find the files on my hard drive. How can I get iTunes to read my library on my external without individually searching each songs location?

I too have got this problem, in fact its the second time this has happened.
On the first occasion, after a lot of enquiries, I resigned myself to re-locating every song on the HD to 're-educate' the i-tunes software. Shortly into this process, it fixed itself!!!!! and all was back to normal. I say it like this because I had done nothing to cause this fix.
Now its happened again and once more nothing was done to cause the change. I was literally editing some song titles when it all changed and i-tunes couldn't locate the songs.
I have checked the settings (even tho it can't change itself) and the itunes music library is set to be on the HD as expected. I also reset it to be that same address but with no luck.
I was, until recently, the owner of a Creative MP3 player but decided to change to ipod because the Creative software was p***g me off. I have now come to the conclusion that ipod/itunes software is just as bad.

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