Lost all my develop settings please help

I processed over 500 CR2 files in Lightroom 4. I then cut and pasted the entire folder that these files were in from my E drive to my C drive. I then imported them back into Lightroom 4 from their new location. However, every file is now back in its orfginal state and seems to have lost all of the develop settings that I spent days doing. Is there a way to get all this development work retireved or am I going to be phoning the Samaritans?
Thanks to anybody who can help

In general, you can't move photos from one place to another by cutting and pasting and import them back into Lightroom to recognize them. Lightroom now thinks these are new photos that it has never seen before, with no edits.
To fix this problem, you need to find your original catalog file which has registered the photos on the E: drive, and open that catalog. Try opening all the catalogs under File->Open Recent. If you can find this catalog, it has your edits. You can then fix the problem my moving the photos exactly to where they were before on the E drive (Exactly!), or re-link to the photos via http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm
Furthermore, why would you even want to do such a cut and paste to a different drive anyway, Lightroom or not? What is wrong with just leaving them on the E drive?
You might to do some more learning about how Lightroom works to avoid this problem and similar ones in the future. A good place to start is http://tv.adobe.com/show/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-4/ You might want to think about a workflow that doesn't involve moving photos from here to there, and a workflow that achieves organization not by folders but by keywords and other metadata.

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