Why can't I play some songs in my library?

My Itunes library has about a thousand and 200 songs... But there are 400 songs that i can't play or even I can't put them on my Ipod because they have in their left side a tick : I Tunes ask me to find them in a paste but i can't find them.. How can i stay with these musics and make them playable!? PLEASE HELP ME AND DON'T DECLARE THAT I WILL HAVE TO LOOSE ALL THESE 400 SONGS!!!

You get exclamation marks or dead tracks because iTunes can’t find the file. This can happen for a number of reasons:
The song file or a folder in its path was renamed
The song file or the folder it is in has been moved
The song file has been deleted
The device containing the song files e.g. external drive is not accessible or the drive letter has changed
Do did you change anything or do you have any other software that can rename or move files?
You can try using Windows search to look for some of the files so see if you can find them. Also look in the recycle bin.
If you have not synced you iPod since the problem started and you have the tracks on the iPod there is software that will allow you to copy the files from the iPod to the PC.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9990366#9990366
Otherwise you need to recover your files from backup if you made a back up.
If none of these work you will have to re-rip the tracks if you have them on CD.

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