External Question

I have searched everywhere and casn't find this.
I have all of my mp3's on my external drive. I have just loaded iTunes on the 'C' drive of my laptop and of course want to point to the files on the external drive. But can't seem to make it see them.
All of the help topics have to do with moving files from the 'C' drive. mine are starting on the external and adding iTunes after the fact.
Help please!!
Thanks

To get iTunes to find your MP3 files, click FILE, then click ADD FOLDER to LIBRARY. Select the drive and folder that contains your MP3's and click OK.
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