Replacing an External Drive on a Mac and iTunes

[slaughteredlamb]

I have 2 external drives on my iMac

Drive 1 is 640GB and contains video files that I have imported into my iTunes library

Drive 2 is 250GB and contains my iTunes MP3 library along with anything I've bought from the iTunes store.

Drive 1 is beginning to fail and I've just ordered a new 1TB drive to replace it with

How can I do this without messing up iTunes?

If I just copy the data from Drive 1 to the new drive won't iTunes simply say that it can't find the video files in the library? I can't consolidate my library because I don't have 1 drive that is large enough to hold all my MP3's and videos and I don't want the 1TB drive to be all used up on MP3's and video files so I want to keep them separate.

 

[robwhizz]

I don't know if iTunes tracks hardware changes, if not you should just be able to copy the files across, then make sure the new drive has the same drive letter as the old one.
If it doesn't go into computer management (My Computer > right click > manage), and disk management and you can set drive letters there.
I would guess it should work as normal then.

[slaughteredlamb]

Cheers but it's using a Mac not a PC. On a Mac you don't have drive letters which is where it kinda confuses things because everything is referenced by a form of UNC path which, IIRC, does identify the drive in some way.

[robwhizz]

Ah, buggered if I know then. Been 15 years since I used a Mac.