Okay, I did it and it works. Following your caveat, I made a back up copy of my original library on F: drive. Then, I started up Calibre and clicked on HELP (novel concept, eh) and read the notes and comments about doing this in the help area. It was fairly clear that this is indeed possible, so I went ahead and did it. Used these instructions from gui.txt
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Library
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|lii| The :guilabel: `Library` action allows you to create, switch between, rename or delete a Library. |app| allows you to create as many libraries as you wish. You could for instance create a fiction library, a non fiction library, a foreign language library a project library, basically any structure that suits your needs. Libraries are the highest organizational structure within |app|, each library has its own set of books, tags, categories and base storage location.
1. **Switch\Create library..**: This action allows you to; a) connect to a pre-existing |app| library at another location from your currently open library, b) Create and empty library at a nw location or, c) Move the current Library to a newly specified location.
2. **Quick Switch>**: This action allows you to switch between libraries that have been registered or created within |app|.
3. **Rename Library>**: This action allows you to rename a Library.
4. **Delete Library>**: This action allows you to **permanenetly delete** a Library.
5. **<calibre library>**: Actions 5, 6 etc .. give you immediate switch access between multiple Libraries that you have created or attached to.
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Just to be clear, there are two tasks to do in the dialog. The first is to tell Calibre the path. In my case it is G:\George's Library (that is what he named it with windows on the old computer so I am leaving that name for simplicity sake.)
Second task is to choose one of three radio button options:
1 - use existing library at new location
2 - create empty at new location
3 - move current to new location
I chose the first one, and it worked flawlessly. Now to clean up the mess :P