Transferring Library from SSD to Hard Disk

I have my entire music library on my SSD right now and it is roughly 75GB. I am trying to transfer this entire library over to my Hard Disk running as my E drive. Of course I am trying to make my Itunes work flawlessly as it currently does with all of my playlists and such. I want the same exact thing I have now on my SSD only my Library is being held on my Hard Disk. Easy enough. I have tried two different processes so far to the same results. I have the entire library on the Hard Disk but the source file/location of the songs are still playing off of my SSD. I have tried the method of completely copy and pasting my library to the hard disk and i have tried the itunes consolidation route. I noticed the consoldiation route organized things a little better and would prefer this route if i could. I have tried uploading the new library and setting the new location as well in the preferences. I am having no luck at changing the actual location file. I do not want to reload the entire library and lose the names/playlists etc etc.
System
Windows 7
AMD A10
8GB Ram
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB
Hitachi Deskstar 2TB

Set the path back to the iTunes library, and then move the entire iTunes library as described above. Changing this path to a location outside of the library folder isn't part of this process.
If you've moved the database files without the media, put the media in the same folder and then change the path.
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