Move all pictures of current catalog to different drive and folder

The drive I use today is getting to small for more pictures in the future.
I want to move all my pictures of the current catalog to a new drive (different drive letter) and new file folder structure (directory name).
How can I do this in the easiest way in Lightroom 1.4.1 and WinXP?
Thanks for help, Thomas

Launch LR by double clicking the .lrcat file on the external. That registers that catalog. You can choose in Prefs to always launch with that catalog. Another thing you might do after ascertaining that all folders were copied over is delete the image files on the internal, but not the the .lrcat and Previews file. That way, you'll still have the use of the previews on the internal, but save huge space by the deleting of the image files there.
Don't forget a backup scheme that encompasses the external!

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(there is also a "negative" cache, but it's not really exposed to the normal user..).
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