itunes im trying to move my files to a new hard drive.?

Ignore people who say that you can't move your library, or that it's dangerous to do so - they are uneducated and don't know what they are saying.

I moved mine to an external hard drive easily by following the Apple Help text here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1364

But you must make sure you look at the first line that says - First make sure that the "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" option is checked in iTunes Preferences.

Did you do this?

I bought an eternal hard drive and moved all of my songs to it. I then creating a new itunes library which is stored on the same external harddrive (Do this by telling itunes where to store your itunes library, edit preferences etc). I then importing all my songs which are stored on this external drive.

its dangerous to move music to a non internal drive you can easily lose the music and or if the drive fails to spin up in time it can cause itunes to decide all your music is lost and freeze and remove your library file..

I'd suggest getting a bigger INTERNAL drive fitted..

however..

When you add songs to itunes you don't add the actual song - just a link to it's location.  The "!" means that that song is no longer findable . For example the external drive has been removed.  To avoid this you need to do the following:-

In iTunes preferences set both  "let iTunes manage my music" And "iTunes keeps local copy in music folder " - the exact wording and location in preys will depend on version of iTunes you are running

Once you have done this, plug in external drive again and add the tracks again to The library (this time the screen in itunes will say copying songs briefly). Then in prefs set the 'music files location to your external drive'

Then to let iTunes manage your music select "consolidate library " from

Either the file or advanced menus again this depends on

The version of iTunes you are running .

Your music is now stored as links in the library plus the actual files are in

Your iTunes music folder and to be safe you should back up the contents of your iTunes folder on my music

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Have you tried this:

File> Library> Consolidate Library