How to move files from old hard drive with SATA dock?

I just upgraded my hard drive and now need to transfer the data from the old hard drive to the new. I was told to use a SATA dock but I am not quite sure how to use one. I thought it best to either find out how to use one or find out if there is a better way rather than going about it on my own. How do I solve this quandry?

Click on edit, and then preferences.
Click on advanced, and click on both
keep my song organised and
copy my songs to my itunes library
Now, from your old hard drive, go to your old itunes folder, and drag each artists folder into itunes. You can do it all at once if you have a few artists, but there have been reports of itunes locking up if too much is being is being imported at once

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