New computer - file path for ext hd

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tangerine dream

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I will shortly be getting a new PC. On my current PC i have attached an external hard drive (Seagate Free agent). It is completely filled with my music collection (nearing 90,000 songs) which I also associate with iTunes on my PC. When I put any new songs on it goes to the directory K:/musicfiles/ (K being the letter the PC has given the hard drive). Here is my question

When I get my new PC and attach the external hard drive will the new PC recognize that the letter K should be assigned to it? Is there anything I can do so that the PC recognizes the music I have, I ask because I reallly do want to have to go through all my collection and put them in new files etc.

Don't know if I have explained this well enough. Hope so but ant answers appreciated
 
the computer will associate its own drive letter according to number of drives and burners. You can manually change them. its also to give and convenient to name the drive. call it external usb so you know exactly what your looking at. thats how i do it. the drive name is the most important to me.
want it perfectly clear what im looking at. don't care about drive letter.
 
i would suggest naming the external HD Music drive/Media Drive (i named mine seagate external Media drive) as i also have photo/music/video/converted ipod video back up.

the drive latter for you isn't really matter, as for new PC you'll need to set up itunes again and when you do you'll need to name it with the letter that the external HD has. for example in new PC if the drive is assigned letter E, in which case majority of prebuilt will have unless you've assigned it manually which you will have to do after you plug the drive in first time.

one good part in your end, once you assign the letter to it and make itunes associate with it the other drive (other external drives or internal drives yo might add) will skip that particular letter and go to next one.
Hope this helps.
 
It didn't recognise the letter of my 1TB HDD when I reinstalled on my SSD, it defaulted to E: where I had it set as F: so none of my programs worked at first.
 
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