Moving to external that already has itl

Hoping for some help -
I had my iTunes library on an external drive and that My Book drive started to go on the fritz. I got nervous and copied my entire Music folder over, including my iTunes library, to my hard drive - all 38 GB of it. Good thing I did that b/c the My Book died soon after.
So, if I want to just locate that to use my iTunes, how do I do that? That's different than choosing a new location and then having everything go there b/c right now - all my music is "missing" in iTunes b/c it can't locate the iTunes library.
While I'm at it - any opinions on keeping your music on your hard drive vs external? I access my music several times a day, often on My Remote app on my iPhone.
Thx for your help.
Alexa
Alexa

Thanks. If I have other music that are MP3 files that are not located in the library, how do I have iTunes recognize them - otherwise, little exclamation point appears. All of the files are now on the external as well.
Alexa

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