Music on secondary Hard drive

Hi, I just installed my secondary hard drive which has all of my itunes music on it.
I have changed the path so that iTunes should be getting the music from the correct folder. But there is no music in iTunes.
I was told that I need to scan for the music, but I can't find the option for that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Does your library have the tracks in it but iTunes can't find them when you try to play them?
If so you will need to explain exactly what you did and how you had things set up before you started.
otherwise,if your library is empty, just add the iTunes Music folder to iTunes with File add folder to library.
Setting the location of the iTunes Music folder in preferences just tells iTunes where to store new music when you download/import it, it will not cause iTunes to add files automatically.

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