How do I move users, including my user library (which is invisible) to a different hard drive?,

I have two 750 GB hard drives in my new mac mini.  Lion is installed on hard drive A and I want to move users to hard drive B.  I have dragged the user files from HD A to HD B and have re-mapped the users to the folders.  Turns out, in Lion the users libraries are hidden and won't copy.  I can unhide them (using Finder, go to folder, ~/Library, GO).  But it will not let me copy the library folders because it is invisible. 

Open the Terminal application in the Utilities folder and paste this to unhide the user library:
sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library
Hit enter and put your password in.

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