How do I back up music to external hard drive

Hi!
The recent loss of some music and the instablity of the iTunes program I have on my machine leads me to believe that I need to delete the program completely and then reinstall.
Instead of goign through the motion os burning 500+ songs to CD's, I'd like to back-them up to an external hard drive.
Is this possible? Will the crypto-license protection built in allow for something like that? If so, then how do I do it?
Did I miss the instructions on the main page as I only saw instructions on how to back-up to CD's?
Thanks.

plug in your external harddrive via usb or which ever way you connect yours then use the backup facility and it will ask you where you want to back up to then click on the respective drive letter for your external hard drive.
alternativly you can open my computer double click on the external hard drive ( if only 1 internal hdd and 1 cd rom it should be the "e" drive ) and selct the itunes folder and right click then copy, cllick onto the external hdd and right click in the display window for your e drive and right click then paste it will then copy all the files to your external hdd

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