Best way to reload images into Lightroom 5.4

I use Lightroom 5.4. My computer hard drive crashed,but I have a back up hard drive. When I reloaded my files from the backup drive to the computer drive, the images were not in the same file structure. After discussing it with someone at Adobe tech support, I deleted all the thumbnails. So Lightroom is currently lacking any images but still possesses all the collection names I had created.
Also, my images currently on the computer drive are located in several different folders, all on my desktop.
Question:
What is the easiest and most logical way to reload all the images into Lightroom?
I assume that I should first move all images on the computer drive to a single location. If I do that, must I then somehow eliminate the folder(s) structure on my computer drive so that I would then reload each image individually into Lightroom and then move also into the existing collection structure, i.e., the various collection folders?
Any other comments or suggestions.

There should not be a need to "re-load" (I assume you mean "re-import") images into Lightroom.
If you have backups of your catalog file and your photos, then all you need to do is open (File->Open Catalog) a copy of a recent catalog file backup, and possibly re-link the photos via http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm. Please give that a try.

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