How do I tell itunes to use a different folder on a different hard drive?

Here is the question in more detail.
Itunes sets a default for saving all of my itunes content.
I want to move this to a bigger drive in my machine.
How do i tell itunes to use this different spot as the default for saving and pulling all of these files?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1364
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/9.0/en/27554.html
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