ITunes didn't like I changed my songs to another Hard Drve

67 GB of organized songs by artist / Album just went to a big mess.
I had my library prefectly organized and I decided to move my song files to a bigger hard drive. I did and changed the media folder in preferences but iTunes didn't find the songs. I then added the songs again (removing first, then adding them again). iTunes didn't recognize the ids because almost all album names and song order was lost.
I'm talking 849 albums all messed up. I have most of them in my iPod, but I don't know if those ids will be read if I try to copy them from the ipod. I don't know what to do. Imagine go through all those songs and try to identify them one by one. This is crazy, really.
Can someone help me please?
Wilfredo
Message was edited by: Wilfredo Nanita

+I did and changed the media folder in preferences but iTunes didn't find the songs.+
Yes, itunes cannot handle this. The way itunes wants it done, is to use the file > library > organize > consolidate command to move to a new drive without losing the path to the files.
Changing that preference only affects FUTURE additions, by the way.
+iTunes didn't recognize the ids because almost all album names and song order was lost.+
I don't understand. Are these WAV files?
If you still have the original (small) hard drive, switch the preferences back to that and start over. Use the consolidate command this time.

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