How do I get iTunes to read music from two drives?

I recently bought an external hard drive for my laptop to transfer some of my music files that I don't use a lot. I have transfered these files but when I go to play them from iTunes it can't find them and I have to manually locate each song, after that is done iTunes knows where it is at but there has to be an easier way than doing this for a thousand songs!!??

Mike,
This is just a little beyond the reach of iTunes at this time.
The correct way to move files to another drive is described here, but this only works when you want to move ALL files to the new location.

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