How to backup photos from 2-ext HDs to a larger ext HD and keep catalogs in line?

Currently have CS6, Bridge, PS Elements 10. Have upgraded Elements right along. I have 2-500GB ext port HD's where I store all my photos as I take them. They are both nearly full. I want to start using a 2TB port HD. I would like to copy the contents of the two 500GB HD's to the 2TB. I'm concerned about the catalogs. Should I copy from Windows Explorer, PS Elements or how so that when I open the 2TB HD all the photos will display in PS Elements. OR should I be doing something different all together?

You did not mention if you have a single catalog to manage the photo files on your two external drives ? Or do you use several catalogs ?
Have you another external (or internal) drive where you could backup your catalogs ? With such an important library I suppose you have backups.
Supposing you have a single catalog for all the photos on both of your external drive, the safer and simpler way would be to create a backup on an external media and restore it on custom location to the new hard drive. (It is not recommended to store the backup on the same destination drive for speed and safety reasons)

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