New Laptop, Old Hard Drive

I recently purchased a new laptop because the motherboard on my old laptop died. My old hard drive was fine however, and I have transferred all of my old files onto my new laptop. However, when I attempt to listen to one of the songs I purchased from iTunes, I get a message that says, "The song 'X' could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" I am then required to go through the process of locating the file in my iTunes folder and double-cliking on it. This is time-consuming and every single song is marked with a "!" thus indicating that the file cannot be located. Please help me!
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What that means about "song cannot be found" is the folder where u had that song has been moved. You have to find it & it should be in "My documents" if u already have successfully transferred it from your old computer. If not, then its lost. Thats the one thing I really hate about it.

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