Why do I still hear the Music on my PC ?


I have been ripping my CD's to an external hard drive for some time now. I think I have completed about 1200 CD's.

Today, without the Hard Drive connected to my PC I double clicked on one of my I Tunes listed songs and the song started to play!

So, is the music still on my Computers internal Hardrive?
ozzy

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Thanks but I started ripping the CD's after I installed the external Harddrive.
The Computer is fairly new and nothing was ever planned to be stored on the Computers Drive.

I did notice however, that inside the ITunes Advanced settings the box was checked "Copy files to Itunes Media Folder when adding to Library".
Should that be checked or unchecked?
Thanks , your right. Somehow some of my later rips went to C. i need to fix that.
Is there a easy way to transfer them to my hard drive and off of C ?
Well I think with the help of this posting and responses and emails I have recieved I think I discovered what went wrong and how to fix it.

First off, with the help of the above poster Onhwy61 and telling me to check the "Get Info" tab I was able to find where the songs were being stored. That showed it was stored, c:users\ozzy\music\itunes\itunes media

With that info I copied that path and pasted it into the "Search Programs and Files". Then the elusive music file became visible.

I was able to right click on the "Music" and one of the options was to "Send To"
I then sent that file to my external Drive. It took about 2 hours to transfer all , but now its done.
I then deleted the C: Music files.

Final Notes:
I still dont know how some of my ripped Cd's went to the C Drive, but at least I know how to correct it.

I also think that Windows 7 certainly made it hard to find where the music was stored.
Horseface, So many Good points, thank you.
ITunes auto updating is probably what changed the routing from my I drive to my C drive. I will have to be more aware of this, again thank you for that information.

So, many reccomend getting away from Itunes. As you can tell I am still new at this. Itunes is the only system I am familiar with.
Can all of my tunes(Apple lossless) be converted to dbpoweramp and FLAC Files?

I did buy a 2nd 1TB External Hardrive for back up for my 1TB External drive. Maybe I should start looking for 2TB units.

Again, thank you all for the help. For the moment it looks like I am now back on track with 1200+ CD's ripped.