Can I simply move my main pictures folder to External Hard Drive?

My pictures folder contains all my catalogues and all my photos that are stored in Lightroom 3. I am running out of internal storage space, so I need to get an external hard drive.
Is it possible for me to simply move my Main Pictures folder, which contains all the photos and catalogues to the external hard drive, and still be able to use those photos in Lightroom just like before?

What he means is inside LR, you'll have to rebind the location of the images.
After you move your image folders (and one assumes, the images) to your external drive, the next time you start up LR you will have a bunch of '?'s marking the images and folders. Do not panic!
LR runs a database about your images, including the locations. If you move your images in the OS, it won't tell LR that you've moved them. So when you start up LR again, you have to tell it.
In the left menu in LR, you should see your drives and folders. Right-click on the top most/left most folder, and select "find missing folder" and browse to your new location. If you kept the same folder structure (i.e., you just dragged your top folder onto your new hard drive) then LR will reconnect all the folders "below" it in one swoop.
If you reorganized as well, then you'll have to reconnect them the hard way. Next time, do folder reorganizations within LR, and that won't happen.
I move folders in the OS instead of LR, it's faster. But I keep the same format, so I only have to reconnect the top level folder!
Cheers!

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