Finding files on different drives when the drive names were changed

So I had music located on two different external HD's, and when I plugged in my iPod, it changed the names of my drives. For example, I had music on drive "H" and drive "I", then when I plugged in my iPod it changed those drive names to "J" and "K". It is easy to change my folder location in iTunes, but that will only fix half of my music (I have over 45,000 songs in my library). How can I have iTunes find all those other songs that now have the exclamation point as the songs are spread out now throughout my iTunes library.
I can not go along to each song or album and go through the process to find the location, that will take me FOREVER.
Thanks for your help

Connect the external drives & the iPod. Close iTunes. Open Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. Reassign the drive letters used by each device until they match your original set-up. Start iTunes and, if you've got it right, all your tracks will be acessible.
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