Moving images/library to different drive

The drive I've got lightroom running on has run out of space (F:), and I want to move it to a bigger drive. I've copied and pasted the whole image directory along with all the lightroom data onto the other drive (E:), and I've had LR load up the relocated .lrdb on E. It loads fine, but the images its pointing to are still the ones on F:. How can I change this? Is there any way?

Ian
thanks for the answer, I wanted to keep away from referencing the masters as I want to be able to use the vault back up process. I have just got two new 500gigs to use for this process I am going to use one for the location of the Library and other for the Vault.
That is the plan, when things start to get larger than 500 I have a 1tb drive ready for the library then I will do multiple vaults.
Regards
NW

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