Find files by drive or folder?

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I have used PSE7 on XP for a while and now I have a new Windows 7 box which I am trying out PSE8 on.
My setup is that all my catalogs and media is on a separate hard drive (D:) so I have just moved the disk and am using that catalog. However since then I have realised that a few hundred (out of ~12000) pictures never got moved to the media disk and are left dotted round in various places on the old C: drive. So I want to go through on the XP box and find any files that are not on the media drive and move them to it before transferring it back to the new computer.
So, essentially my problem boils down this. How can I find files by folder or path name? I have found several different ways of searching by filename but this seems to be confined to the actual name of the file and not include the path. I have several candidate directories I want to check, and essentially anything in the catalog that is on drive C: (or in one of several candidate folders) needs to be moved but I cannot for the life of me find any way of doing this. There are many essentially useless things you can search for but I cannot believe that one of the most useful methods is really missing. I have tried on PSE8 and PSE7 with the same result.
I would be very grateful if someone could point me at how to crack this, it has already taken up several hours of searching.
Regards
Philip Coombes

In PEv.8, at top right, Display>folder location.
I just installed PEv.8 a few days ago, and now want to populate the organizer with the picture files which are in folders on the C drive. When I go to the folder view, point to C drive, the folders don't show up for me. I am using WINDOWS 7.

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