Files moved location, playlist is confused

Hi Guys
I'd really appreciate some help here, I may have ruined my friends carefully selected playlist of 1200 songs.
I have MOVED the music files from there original location to an external hard disk. Note: some of the songs were in a long hierarchy of directories, and for simplicity I removed them from the directories and placed them straight into the root of the external HD.
This has now created the problem that the existing playlist has now got a full list of exclamations next to the songs. Following reading threads I saw on various forums, I thought I should re-consolidate the library. Reassigning iTunes music folder to E:\ I then proceeded to consolidate the library again.
Still the exclamation persists, could someone please shed some light on what options I have to reinstate the new file locations of the playlist/library into iTunes.
Thanks so much in advance.
FarmerCarter

Open the disk manaagement console (hit Start and type diskmgmt.msc<Enter> into the search box). Change the drive letter of your drive from G: to F: - if something else is already using F: change that first. Open iTunes. Should be good.
You may find my post make a split library portable and this backup tip useful.
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