Moving photos from one hard disk to another but not loosing the editing history on the photo

Hello,
I have one hard disk filling up with photos, so I have purchased a secondary hard disk to expand my storage.  I would like to move my shoots from 2010 to that new hard disk, but I don't want to loose all of the edits saved on them in LR3.  I have experimented with moving non-important images that have edits on them, then re-importing them.  Unfortunately, LR3 does not preserve that history.  Is this possible?
Thanks!
Adam Pendleton

Adam, reimporting is not the way to achieve what you want.
There are several ways to achieve your goal though:
1. Move the files with your OS from one drive to the other - best to move one folder if they are all in one (2010) and then relink in LR by right clicking the folder in the Library Folder panel and choosing "Update Folder Location".
2. Use Lightroom to move the folders in the Library by dragging and dropping them - this can be done one folder at a time only.

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