Setting up a new destination drive, doubling of files.

I recently moved. My computer reassigned the drive letter of my music disk drive. There is a new, third disk drive that I don't recognize, as I only have two - a CD-RW and DVD-RAM. Therefore, all of the music on my G: drive moved to an H: drive. This means that when I opened iTunes, it couldn't find most of the music on my computer and displayed the small "exclamation point", round, icon next to each song that was missing. So I added a new folder under the "File" menu of iTunes. This made each file playable, but now there are two of every file and I don't want to spend days on end removing duplicates. Anyhow, please help I appreciate it.

If it recognizes the Leopard install disc, try to go to First Aid>Disk Utility and select your drive and then Partition it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). What follows is a more comprehensive instruction from Indiana University's Knowledge Base.
+If your install disc is for Mac OS X, follow these steps:+
+1. From the Installer menu, select Open Disk Utility... . In the window that opens, on the left, click the icon for the drive you would like to initialize or partition.+
+2. To the right, click the Partition tab.+
+3. In the pop-up menu under "Volume Scheme:", choose the number of partitions to be created during the initializing process. By partitioning your drive, you divide it into multiple volumes that can hold different file and operating systems. For a basic installation of Mac OS X, just one partition is necessary.+
+4. After you've chosen the number of partitions you want, you can adjust their sizes by dragging the graphical handles that represent the partition borders.+
+5. Click each of the partitions to adjust its properties. Under "Volume Information", you may choose the format you would like to use. The default choice will be Mac OS Extended or Mac OS Extended (Journaled), depending on the version of the operating system you have, and typically it should be the one you use.+
+6. Once you've chosen your volume scheme, click the Partition button.+
+After your drive is formatted and partitioned, you may continue with other installations from your install disc. Of course, such an installation will be necessary before you can boot (start up) from your newly partitioned hard drive.+
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