Problem moving files from USB to Network Drive

I moved my music data from an USB drive to a NAS drive in the network. This also changed the drive letter assigned to the iTunes Music Folder location.
I updated the location in iTunes after moving the files.
But iTunes does not find the files any more.
The file structure is 1:1 and the only thing that changed is the drive letter going from E:\... to L:\...
Any chance to get the references restored? Since I did make edits in the database (such as Genre, BPM, etc) and created many playlists I am wondering what kind of trick I can use or what I did wrong.
Thanks for any advise.
Joe

Hi,
is it possible that the HD was configured as a 'Dynamic Disk' when created in Windows ?
Macs do have problems with these kind of HDs.
See here for informations about Dynamic Disks: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B308424&x=9&y=12
and this on How-To convert back to Basic Disks (which Macs can use): http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B309044&x=15&y=14
Regards
Stefan

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