Workflow: moving images on disk

I just cant seem to bend lightroom to my prefferred workflow
Whenever I import a whole bunch of images into one location, i find it such a faff to move these within lightroom to where I want them to finally reside. 
lets say I import them to  D:/holding folder
I want them to finally end up in F:/folder/subfolder/RAW
I cant import that folder into LR because there are no images in it, and creating it manually is a faff. 
Is there an elegant way to do it? if not, why?

Remember the point of this is to import onto one drive, and then move to a different drive.
And that is exactly what I call an unnecessary and extra step. I can't imagine, and you haven't explained, why this is a necessary step. Why don't you just put the photos in the destination folder on the different drive directly from the camera? What benefits do you get from doing it your way, or what disadvantages are there from going directly to the destination drive?
It seems to me that a simple "move photos" command would be in order,
In Lightroom, you can indeed move photos. Drag and drop, done within Lightroom, to whatever folder you want in the Folder Panel. There is no need for "navigating in the OS to the correct folder".
If theres a quicker way let me know.
There's lots of quicker ways. Most people don't seem to struggle with getting their photos in the proper location. I've tried to explain them briefly. But if you want more detail, you have to first give more detail about what your needs are — specifcially, the following two items: why you need to import onto one drive and then move them to another, and what your final folder structure looks like. And if you want even quicker, there are workflows where you use default folder names which Lightroom creates itself (so there's never any moving of photos from here to there), and all organizing is done inside Lightroom via keywords and other metadata.

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