Migrating documents to second Hard Drive

I bought a new internal hard drive and would like to keep the original drive as a start up drive with all the applications, and migrate all my documents to the new or second hard drive.
At first I thought it would be as simple as copying all the document folders over to the new hard drive. But, then I started wondering about folder structure and the user structure.
So, I'm wondering if there is a protocol for what I want to do? Maybe a link to instructions?
Thanks
mp
I'm running OSX 10.5.8 (Mac Pro)

Not to worry. Just drag & drop the folders onto the new drive. Just as a precaution, select a few files with different apps & open the files to ensure they open. Then you can drag the corresponding folders on your old drive to the Trash. Shouldn't be a problem.
Do you have another HD, either internal or external, that you use to backup all your files? You should.
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