Itunes will not recognise when i change the folder location

I have removed all my music from my pc hard drive and moved it to an external hard drive to free up space. i have changed the folder location in preferences but itunes still says that each and every track cannot be found. it doesn.t revert back to the original location just doesn't find the tracks..... i've done the same thing on my powerbook and it worked fine - can anyone help me out please?
thanks very much.

Changing the location of your iTunes Music folder in your iTunes Preferences doesn't affect files that are already in your Library ... it only affects where tracks that are added from that point on will be located.
If you still have the tracks on your PC, you can make use of this article in the Apple Knowledge Base.
If the tracks aren't on your PC any longer, post back for another strategy.

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