How do I tell lightroom 5 to use a catalog that's been moved onto a different disk?

I have moved the whole of My Pictures folder (including my Lightroom Catalog), which was previously located on my Windows 7 (64bit) C:drive, onto another disk (F:) and now I need to update Lightroom so that it knows where to find its re-located Catalog.
Please could I have some basic instructions for altering Lightroom's settings, in order to use the old Catalog again.
Thanks for your help,
Ian

I would like to check I have definitely understood this. I want to move my photos and catalogs from their current location to another location on my hard drive (into a dropbox folder).
The images are organised into sub-folders underneath each catalog folder. So, as I understand it, as long as I move the file structure including catalog and image folders, I can simply drag them from one place to another?
I am checking because I have thousands of images and I don't want to break the catalog.
Thanks

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