File Transfers with External Hardrive

My computer's hardrive was filling up because it is the family computer, so i purchased a 320 gig external hardrive for my music. in the past when i have moved my music to different files i get a grey exclamation point in front of the song and i need to locate the song in order for this to work. i have many songs and would like to transfer them to the external hardrive without having to individually locate them all. is this possible?

Sure, first thing to do is make sure your exHD has a letter pretty far down in the alphabet so Windows won't do any funny stuff and change that drive letter on you when you plug in other USB devices.
(if the drive letter changes you'll get the ! all over again)
Then, follow the directions from this article to consolidate your library.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1364
I would hold off on steps 11 & 12 until you're sure it worked properly.

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