Moving files and geting "!" on library

I upgraded my hard drive, and wanted to move my music library from an external drive to the bigger internal drive. But even though I copied the music files to the hard drive, the library looks to the external drive. If the external drive is turned off, it can't locate the files and I get the dreaded "!" in the left column, I know there must be way for the system to automatically re-index and find all those files (isn't there?).

Thanks, but this didn't work. Funny thing is, that I can find each song individually by simply searching for it, and it is on the hard drive. Under the main music folder on the hard drive, however, are a bunch of library subfolders, presumably created at different times. Do you think I should move all the contents into the main folder? But how do I get it to find and index everything?

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