I have to search for each song after computer crash.  I have external drive

I was working on a project with realplayer when it caused my computer to crash. The only way to shut off my computer was to hit my power switch on the surge protector and reboot that way. Anyway, I have about 3000 songs on my external drive. Every time I want to play a song, a window pops up saying that it could not locate the original file, would you like to locate now. So now i have to search for the file everytime. How do I make it so Itunes automatically goes to my hard drive like it was before? I just downloaded Itunes 8.2, but couldnt figure it out. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Do you recall what drive letter the exHD was using before the crash?
Is it still the same, or did Windows assign it a different letter?
The itunes database stores the entire path name to songs, so if it changed from F:/Music/blablabla to G:/Music/blablabla, that would cause it.
If you dont care about playlists, ratings, and play counts, it is a lot easier to just clear out your library and add everything back in.

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