Moving Music From PC Hard Drive to External Hard Drive?

Okay, I'm pretty new to iTunes, so sorry if this is a dumb question.
I have a bunch of music on my PC's hard drive. It's of course also on iTunes. I want to move my music from my computer's hard drive to an external USB hard drive, so I don't clog up my PC's hard drive space. I know that if you move music around to different folders, iTunes can't find it meaning it won't play on your iPod also unless you relocate it. Is there any way I can move my entire music library from my PC HDD to my external HDD without having to relocate every last song? How is this done?
Thanks.

Welcome to discussions! This absolutely possible & the following link from MacMuse should give you most of the information you need. 2 pointers though, there are 2 database files associated with iTunes, .itl &.xml files, these files can't be moved & must stay on your system's HD as that is there "home". Secondly, you will have to remember to boot up the EHD prior to opening iTunes, if you don't iTunes can't see the music folder & will revert its location back to the main drive giving you a bunch of dead links . If you should happen to forget to boot up the EHD, just close iTunes, get the EHD going, & re-open iTunes. Hope this helps!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121879

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