How can I get iTunes to automatically find the file for songs marked with ! without manually doing each one?

Ok, we've had a problem with our external hard drive which holds all of our music files (our H drive).  It's the 2nd time going down and we're just chalking it up as a failure.  Fortunately, we had it all backed up onto another external hard drive (our G drive).  We re-did iTunes back in February (bringing all the files in, sorting, playlists, etc) after fixing it the first time.  So I have that exact files from then (on the G drive) minus a new CD or two, nothing major.  But when I open that iTunes library, it doesn't find the music that is connected to it - even though all the music is in the folder connected to the library (all in G drive).  I'm not sure if this file is still trying to look for my H drive folder.
I found a previous question asked on here about the ! songs.  I brought in all the music from the iTunes/Music folder.  So of course, I have double now.  I would just go delete all the rest - except for this.  What about my playlists??   I don't really want to recreate each one manually.  I have also adjusted a ton of info in iTunes over the years to make things easier (fixed spelling when it brings it from a CD wrong, etc).  That brings me back to wondering if I could have iTunes automatically search for its own file instead of me doing it for 7,500+ songs.
Any ideas??   Or am I just stuck doing a lot of work?
Thanks!

If what is on the G: drive is a mirror of what was on the H: drive, then get Windows to change the drive letter of G: to H:
If a simple fix isn't forthcoming then my FindTracks script should be able to reconnect the missing tracks to iTunes. FindTracks uses some fuzzy matching routines and searches for multiple potential locations. For more details see this thread.
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