How do I change the location of my music in itunes?

Recently my hard drive had died. Luckily I had a back-up drive with all my music on it. But everytime I want to play a song - itunes asks me where the song is, and I have to manually point to it on the back-up drive.
I was wondering if there's a way to let itunes know that now all my music is on that new drive, so it can automatically relink them.
Thanks!!
Galia

This is actually pretty easy. Just delete all the songs in your library (use the keep option if you get a popup window). Then tell Itunes to add Folder to library. Simply point to the folder on your back up drive, and it will reload your entire library, assuming your songs were organized in only one area.

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