Itunes library issue, would like some insight

hopefully someone can help me out with this, located on my laptops hard drive, in my itunes music folder, i have 50gb of music. All of it is on my ipod organized and everything, i am very pleased. however i would like to get it off my harddrive as it is taking up much needed space. I have a backup usb 150gb drive. my question is, if i take all the albums out of my music folder and put them on the removable hard drive, will that affect my ipod at all? and if it wont affect it what is the best way to go about it? i think all it will do is not allow me to edit the music that is currently on my ipod, but not sure. please help out, thanks

Yes, read that article. It's good.
If you just move the files using Windows Explorer, iTunes will not be able to find them. You need to use the itunes Consolidate library command to move the files.
One thing the article doesn't mention, you should assign a permanent drive letter to the exHD.
That way, no matter what you plug into your USB ports, it will always stay the same within Windows, and itunes won't lose the path to your music files.
My advice is to give it something fairly far down in the alphabet, like M: for music.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844

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