Transfering catalog from one hard drive to another

I know there is a simple way of dealing with this query and hope that someone can help.  All my images are currently stored on a 3 Tb hard drive and recently I purchased a DROBO with 15tb of memory.  At the momeent I am using the Drobo as back up until the 3tb becomes full.  That time has come and I want to use the Drobo as the main drive for my images which contains exactly the same files as the 3tb.  I also copied the catalog file onto the Drobo so I thought that all I needed to do is open the catalog in the Drobo and it will automatically access the files in the drobo drive but this is not the case as it still accesses the 3tb files.  I tried diconnecting the 3tb thinking that it will try to access the files on the Drobo but then I get ? all over the place and it gets messy.  Can soemone help?
Thanks

Here is the method to connect Lightroom to your photos:
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm
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