Importing? Consolidating? drag n drop?  which is right ?

I have my music on a sepaarate drive B user/music/itunes/itunesmusic.
my itunes is where osx is Drive A - the startup disk.
user/music/itunes/itunesmusic/ is empty
my itunes says i have 4900 tracks, about 19 gb
however i know my music (drive B) has twice as much , about 40 GB.
i tried to consolidate ( the copy file in itunes /advanced is unchecked) . i ended up wil a lot of tracks with the ( ! ) mark at each .
I want to have all my tracks available on itunes ,WITHOUT copying or moving the actual music files from drive B.
do i consolidate?
do i import?
or do i drag n drop from B to Itunes (A).?

So all of your music is on drive B?
I would clear out your entire iTunes library (you will lose all of your playlists and play counts, but you will also lose all those pesky ! marks) - Don't move to trash when it asks.
Then from your empty iTunes, go to the File pulldown menu and select "Add To Library" and navigate to drive B. Click on the "Choose" button at the root of B and iTunes will search drive B and add all the songs back into iTunes.

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