Importing Via External Hard Drive

I used to have all of my music on my CPU hard drive. Having so much music + digital photos on that drive I got an external hard drive. I transfered the music to the external and deleted everything off of my main CPU. Now every time I turn on iTunes it brings all my music over from the external hard drive (I set that up in my preferences), but the problem is certain songs I click on I get the "!" symbol and it says it can't locate the song. I am having to manuelly search for a lot of songs now and I can't help but think there has to be an easier way. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Ryan

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'ello,
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