How can I access my edited photos from an old hard drive?

Hello everyone,
I am dying for your help please! My external hard drive crashed and this was the source for the import of all of my photos into lightroom. Luckily I managed to recover files from my hard drive and move to a new one but the old hard drive is busted! Because this was the location where the photos were stored when I imported them into lightroom I can not see the photos in the catalogues I had in lightroom anymore. I had edited these photos and I have nearly 22,000 photos!! I really don't want to edit them all again! Does anyone know how I can re-direct the location or salvage any time here please????

It's your PC that needs to be authorized, not the iPods. If you didn't authorize your old PC before it crashed, you have lost one of the 5 authroizations, but I wouldn't worry about it - once you reach 5 authroizations you can deauthorize all, once per year.
Article onthat: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420
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I don't understand this part of your question.

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