How do I backup my iTunes purchased songs onto my external hard drive?

Question

I've got a lot of songs on iTunes and I want to back them up onto my external hard drive (F:). How do I do that and then how do I restore them onto my iTunes if and when I need to do that? Thanks!

Answer 1

first connect external hard drive

then go to the iTunes music folder on your computer and drag the whole folder into the external hard drive icon in My Computer

when it finishes copying, eject the external hard drive

to restore lost files, just connect the hard drive to your computer

then drag the files you want back to the computer from the external hard drive