My music is not in my iTunes folder and I need to move both to another external hard drive.

Hello,
I have my music library in a folder on an external hard drive, my movies are in another folder and my iTunes folder is in yet another folder on the same external hard drive. I am moving everything to another hard drive. How does one accomplish this in this instance? I know I can move the iTunes folder but that assumes that all my media is within that folder. How do I move everything without beguiling iTunes?
I hope this question is clear enough.
Thanks,
Dean

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