Moving LR and pics to a new computer/HD, most efficient/painless way...

Hello people of the Adobe LR forum!
The primary HD on my computer is crapping out (after only 6 mos!), and it's the same HD in which all my pictures reside as well as my LR install.
What is the recommend way to transfer my images and all of my precious LR metadata image develop information to another HD? All of my pictures are in one big catalogue.
I read through the Help but couldn't really find anything that clearly addressed this.
If I install LR on a new primary HD, copy over the folders of images, and then open of my catalogue, will that work? Is it critical that my .lrcat file and "Lightroom" folder remain in the same relative file location to the RAW pictures/folders?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Minh
www.minhternet.com

Yes, you can copy everything directly over and it will work. It is time consuming if you have a large library, but not at all painful. To avoid "finding" your photos in Lr later you will want to keep the folder structure the same.

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