Elements 6 to 8 - lost tags and ratings

I was running Elements 6 on my old computer with over 6000 photos tagged and rated.... the computer died and I had the hard drive removed. I installed Elements 8 (trial version) on my new computer and copied over all the photos from my old drive. The photos copied over but none of the tags or ratings did. No, I didn't do a backup from Elements (bad, I know). So, I have access to all the files on my old drive, is the tag information stored anywhere? I found the old catalog file but Elements 8 doesn't recognize it. Should I remove version 8 and install 6 instead? or????
Please help!
Thanks!!

You need to recover the entire PSE 6 catalog folder and then convert the catalog from PSE 6 format to PSE 8:
1. Find the PSE 6 catalog folder on the old drive. It contains a file "catalog.psedb"; see this tech note for likely locations:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402592.html
2. Copy the entire folder to the same location on your new C drive (it's not essential that it be in the same location, but it reduces confusion).
3. Start PSE 8, do File > Catalog > Convert, and select your old PSE 6 catalog to convert. You should now have all your tags, albums, ratings, captions, dates/times, etc. in PSE 8. If you run into any problems converting the catalog, see this FAQ:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Problems_converting_catalo gs

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