Lost IPTC Info

I needed larger storage so I installed several internal HD's to cover future growth. After "upgrading" to CS4 and copying everything over, I seem to have lost a lot, not all, IPTC data on my images. Or should I say, more accurately, I lost all IPTC data on many images, not on all images. Metadata involving photo technicals are all still there, just not keywords and such.
Is there any way to get it back?
Thanks
Petroffski

By COPYING I mean dragging, from a mirrored RAID, 750 GB worth of digital photofiles, mostly modified RAW images, to an internal 1.5 TB HD and 300 GB worth of scans with IPTC data attached to another 1.5 TB internal HD. All of these RAW images and scans had IPTC metadata added as XMP sidecar files. All looked well. The raid was broken down to be used as backup disks and only after that, found out that probably half of the thousands of images had ALL of the XMP data files missing. All that they had was as-shot information, no keywords. XMP files were gone.
Surely something happened during the drag and copy but that is not my concern (well maybe a little). I do have all of these images and XMP files backed up. I was hoping to avoid recopying these files from the backup.
I just wanted to know if there is some place that the XMP files might have gone. I've since learned that if they are not with the file, they do not exist any more. If I'm wrong about this let me know as at least 20 hours of copying could be cut short. Otherwise I am now (shoulda done this in the first place!!) using my backup software to copy the pics and XMPs to their respective HD's.
Thanks-
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