Moving my Lightroom installation from an external to an internal disk

I was having hard disk capacity issues so have been running Lightroom on an external USB drive - and it's been working fine. But I am installing a new drive internal to my machine in the coming days. How can I move Lightroom from the external drive, along with the Lightroom catalog, to the new drive? Do I need to uninstall and then reinstall? I want to be sure that I don't lose my settings or, of course, the catalog!
By the way, I still have an old Lightroom Library from the first version. So, I have this folder setup:
Lightroom Library folder
Lightroom Database.lrdb (old database file)
Lightroom Catalog folder (folder)
Lightroom Previews.lrdata (old folder)
Can I simply move the Lightroom Catalog folder to the new disk and delete the old database file and old previews folder? Finally, I routinely archive Lightroom Catalog.lrcat but not as frequently the growing Lightroom Catalog Previews.lrdata - I assume that it would be rebuilt if needed after a crash, no? Thanks!

Thanks. I do want to bring over all my presets and settings. If I install anew, won't I lose all of that? Also, I am not at 1.3.1 - can I install the newest version on the new disk and then safely import all my data and settings? Below is what I think I can do - am I right? Thanks!
Dilip
[EXTERNAL DRIVE Z:, NEW INTERNAL C:]
Install 1.3.1 on my C: drive (I assume that once I give it my valid key, it will work even though it's not installing over an existing installation)
Run Lightroom from C: [how to copy over my preferences and presets?] - it will not see any catalogs, so let it create a new catalog on C:
Import from Catalog - just point to z:\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat - I assume that a c:\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat will then be built that would be identical to the one on the Z: drive (would it be faster to just copy the .lrcat over and then open that catalog? also, I have several GB of previews -- would previews not take a long time to be rebuilt, or could I copy those over, too?)

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