Second Hard Drive - What Logic files can I move to it?

Hey Gang,
I have a 160GB Int HD that I plan to leave alone (let all default files install where they may). I have a second 300GB Int HD that I would like to partition into 3 sections. Audio Files for recordings and such directly related to logic, Music Files for all my personal tunes and a Backup Volume for, well, backups. I plan on leaving most of Logic's files on the startup drive. Can I take the Logic folder inside my user>music folder and put in the 2nd drive? Do I need to use an alias or is it prefs?
OFF TOPIC: While I'm hear can anyone tell me the upgrade path to Pro from Express. Seems I missed the $500 rebate offer on Apple's website last month...boooooooooooo...
Thank For All Advice,
Dave Buckley

Off, topic, but very relevant. Dave you should back up to a physically different drive. If something goes wrong with your drive your backup partition will likely be just as inaccessable as the primary saves. I work in a computer shop and see a hard drive with serious problems almost every workday, most of the time I can recover the data, but the point of backups is to not pay for my time, or even worse Cherry Systems or some other real professional data recovery house. Believe me, the cost is very high, more than ten times the cost of a separate drive for backups. I just mention it since you are going to the trouble of making that backup partition, instead use that space for Audio and samples as well and get a FW or USB2 drive for backups. Also if you do it this way, your backup will not be in use nearly as much and decrease the chances of failuire of the backup drive quite a bit.

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