"orginal file cannot be found" message for entire library!!

I recently purchased a new Gateway. I had a Maxtor One Touch III external hardrive for my old computer. I hooked it up to the new one and downloaded the necessary stuff to make it work with Vista. It worked for a couple of weeks. Now everytime I click on a song it gives me the message that file cannot be found would you like to locate it?. Once I locate the song in My G drive (Maxtor External) the song plays. The problem is I have over 20,000 songs and don't want to have to do that every time. Is there a way to locate the whole library all at once. Please help.

Is this what you tried...
Syncing Photos with iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236
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