Itunes not recognizing external hard drive

I have a smartdisc firelite external hard drive that was working perfectly until yesterday when I bought a shuffle and now itunes is not recognizing to go the hard drive to locate the songs. Can someone walk me threw this so I can download some songs from my external drive to itunes and then to the shuffle ? Thank you so much

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