Lightroom moving to bigger HDD

[Clonetrooper]

My LR is installed on c drive, with the catalogue and back up files also on c drive (and back up elsewhere). All my photos are on another internal drive, my H drive. This is getting full and I want to upgrade it and clone across onto another larger drive then remove the smaller drive.

If I use cloning software like acronis and copy my H drive. Will lightroom still pick up all my photos and changes or will I have to re-find and link the pictures to lightroom and restore the catalogue files?

Or is there a simplier way to upgrade HDD sizes, put all your pictures on and have lightroom pick up all your pictures and edits?

Thanks for any help

 

[arad85]

If you replace the drive, and still call it H:, LR should still find the images.

If you call it another drive letter, all you need to do is when a ? is shown in the Library module, right click on the root directory and there is an option to find missing files.

 

[neil_g]

What he said, if the drive has the same letter and the folder structure is the same then should be fine.

Worst case your collections will have ? on them, just right click the collection and locate the missing images.

 

[Clonetrooper]

Thanks guys, the edits I have made to the pictures should still be applied? The cat file is on my C drive after all, is that right?

 

[arad85]

Yes