Finding RAW files on Portable Hard Drive

I've just bought a Portable Hard Drive for storing my RAW files. (LR recommended good practice, keeping 50% of my C drive empty!!)
Now...I am able to download from my Memory Card to the Portable Drive and tell LR where to find the images. - That's dandy!.
I can even move a small number (e.g. 6) RAW files from the C drive to the portable drive. The thumbnail then gets a "?" and when selected, tells me it cant find the (RAW) file and asks me where it is. I can do that since I moved them to a portable drive folder that I set up - That's fine too
What I don't know is how to move 3,000+ RAW files in (e.g.) 75 folders from the C drive to the portable drive without having to tell LR where EVERY one of them is.
LR help says
To locate missing photos in a folder and its subfolders, select a folder in the Folders panel, choose Library > Synchronize Folder, and click Show Missing Photos.
But if I understand this correctly it is simply showing me that there are missing photos (not where they ought to be)
More helpfully, LR help also says
3(Optional) In the Locate dialog box, select Find Nearby Missing Photos to have Lightroom search for other missing photos in the folder and reconnect them automatically.
Does this mean I need to specifically describe the location of ONE from each folder then let LR find NEARBY Missing RAW files?
This might be a daft question, but do I need to set up my portable HD directory structure to be the same as my C drive to automate the synchronize??
Sorry if I'm missing what everyone else knows.
Steve McG

I have the same problem in reverse. I have always had my original files on my external drive (and it just saved me in a crash last month. However now I -have copied- all my files to E: (an internal drive on my new computer), so I am 'missing' all my files. I understand the concept above about creating a master folder in LR2, and then does tha mean that you can locate one file in the master, and ask for all missing near that one and that it -will- go down to all subfolders? Lastly, how do I (we) get there from here? On my hard drive, I do have a master folder. It is E:\PictureFolder. Everything I own is under that one, in their own major subject folders (01FamilyMiller, 02FamilySharp, etc.). Under those are yyyymmdd_<shootname> folders with the actual files. In LR2, I have imported the <shootname> folder only, so LR has 20080101_NewYearsAtLeslies, 20080430_VermontTrip, etc., e.g. strictly chronological, even though they are in separate category folders on the hard drive. Maybe now is the time to put major subject area and personal vs. professional master folders on LR2. Before I do any changes to folder structure in LR2, how do I get my hard drive folders connected to the ones in LR2, en masse? Do I just create PictureFolder in LR2 and then move all the "?", chronological LR folders under it??

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