Another person asking about moving files in lightroom

I have spent several hours today trying to sort out, what I thought was going to be an easy question.
Moving files from my internal hdd to an external one.
Ok, I know it should be easy, a trillion posts say how to do this.
Sys info (from LR itself):
Lightroom version: 3.3 [711369]
Operating system: Windows Vista Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 6002)
Version: 6.0 [6002]
Application architecture: x86
System architecture: x86
Physical processor count: 2
Processor speed: 1.7 GHz
Built-in memory: 3061.6 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 716.8 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 343.8 MB (47.9%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 318.7 MB
Memory cache size: 0.0 MB
System DPI setting: 96 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 1280x800
My files and their backups were scattered across 3 drives, I reformatted (a complete format - not a quick format) then proceeded to move the larger part of my library onto it using lightroom, apply some metadata and allowing lightroom to put them in date specific folders.
Phew that was a long job.
Now I wanted to take what was left of my library that currently resides on my C:/ drive in my laptop and move it onto the external 1tb drive. It says they are already there.
Searching for them outside of windows says they are not there. Trying to use the import dialog with the move function comes up with nothing to move.
I could drag and drop but I get a dialog box saying I can't undo anything that has been done to these files before. I want to keep and be able to edit/undo my edits. Isn't that what LR3 is supposed to be?
Anyways; I'd love some help. I have tried watching some of David Marx videos (from the lightroom lab site) and a large number of threads on this forum. I'm stumped and I'm frustrated.
Thanks for your time.

Okay....
I think I've answered my own question... sort of.
I tried the drag and drop method of copying and that seems to work. I don't understand the dialog box and why it makes it seem so final.
So, I don't know why the import function didn't work, when the other night it did, but the drag and drop method worked where the import dialog failed and I'll have to change the folders and metadata manually.

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Aloha DW Community
I need help/confirmation on this before i do it. I have
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> Aloha DW Community
>
> I need help/confirmation on this before i do it. I have
inherrited the
> website
> from hell; that meaning the folders on my computer and
on the server are
> very
> unorganized. There are images all over the place, in
places they just
> should
> not be stored. i am getting ready to switch to a new
service provider for
> the
> site so i want to start as fresh as possible. i have
already downloaded
> the
> whole site from the server to my local computer. i have
gone through and
> deleted all the old files that are no longer needed. now
before i upload
> this
> site to the new server i want to collect all the images
that are spread
> about
> and place them in the same folder. my question is this -
if i gather all
> the
> images together and upload the site, will dreamweaver
correct all the link
> paqths that have been switched around by me moving all
the pictures? i
> know DW
> does this, but i am not sure if it will do it on such a
large scale.
>
> if you know the answer, please let me know.
>
> thank you in advance
>
> all the best to you
>
> e~
>

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