Transfering iTunes from small Portable HDD to 1TB HDD - Losing ratings etc.

I have a 40gb portable HDD, this ran out of space so I purchased a 1TB portable HDD as I do a lot of design work and Music is outgrowing the 40gb HDD.
After transfering it all over, little explaination marks flag up every time you click on a song.
I have used iPod Rip before when I moved my iTunes from iBook G4 to 40gb HDD for the same reason but lost all info like rating songs (which I cant be bothered to re rate 3000 songs!!) and play counts and things like that.
Any suggestions before I permantly delete iTunes from my 40gb HDD?

hi nicholas,
if you got exclamation point before your songs it is because the reference link between your iTunes library and your song files have been broken most probably because of an incorrect way to move your songs.
you must think that your iTunes library is simply a database that contains reference link to where your songs files are located. if you move your files, the reference link contains in the iTunes library will no longer find your file and iTunes will show you an exclamation point to show you this situation. therefore, I beleive that what you have done was to move your songs using the finder without correcting your iTunes library.
in the following article you will find the procedure to move your song files; http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748
depending of what you have done so far, you may possibly put back your song in the correct location using the finder and then follow the procedure described in the above article.
also note that all your rating and playcount are located in the iTunes library file.

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