Moved library no longer works

I've done this before but for some reason it is no longer working. I'm sure I'm just doing something wrong.
I've got my music stored on a 2nd internal drive. I took that 2nd drive and copied everything over to a 3rd internal drive. Now I'm trying to get itunes to work again. I thought I'd just be able to point the xml file to the 3rd internal drive but that isn't working. When I load up itunes, 95% of my music isn't found. For some reason, it found say one of 12 songs on an album but all 12 are saved in the exact same spot. I'd really like to get this to work so my ratings an everything is saved. I'd rather not have to recreate my library. Any suggestions? All I'm trying to do is upgrade to a larger hardrive.

Anyone? No ideas?

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