Major Move of My Pictures from C to D drive

I need to move all My Pictures or at least the contents (20 GB) from a C drive to a new partition on that same physical drive, the D drive.
Rather than move one folder at a time, is there some way to move the entire master folder? Either with LR3 or with Explorer and than resynch (or I suppose reimport) to LR3?
My C Drive is simply getting too full and needs something relocated to D and the pictures are the things that are growing by leaps and bounds.
Perry

Do not re import under any circumstances.
If all the folders are under one master folder, as is always the sensible way of structuring, then this is easy. Just move (not copy, if you copy the files remain in the original location and LR will continue to reference them there)) the entire folder to the new drive and then in LR right click on the master folder, select relocate folder, point to the new location and the job is done.
Large moves will be a lot faster using the OS rather than in LR. You can do this in LR, by dragging the folder, but it is likely to take a lot longer.

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