Library change location problem

Hello everyone, i make 2 partitions on my HD and im trying to move the itunes library to the second partition wich is the biggest 200GB, i have done everything by the book itunes/preferences/advanced/change location/new folder on my second partition called iTunes music/consolidate library/trash the old itunes folder from the music folder, but when i open itunes again there is no music at all, i tried several times the same procedure and the same thing happened, please help
Itunes 6.0.3

Did you trash the entire 'old' iTunes folder?
If so, then you also trashed the 'iTunes Library' file which holds all your information about the songs.
If iTunes can't find that file it makes a new (empty) one.
If you did not empty the trash yet, put that file at it's original location (replacing the new one) and run iTunes again.
If you already emptied the trash, you might be able to recover it by using a data recovery program.
M

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