Lost my Keywords and edited photos?

Hi, I got a new computer! Yeah for me. My photos were stored on an external hard drive that I used to access the pics, keywords, etc. on the old PC because the hard drive on the laptop was too small.
So, I got a new computer, large hard drive, re-installed lightroom and copied my DNG photos to the new HD on the new computer (PC, by the way) Alas no keywords and it also looks like the photos I edited are not there either.
Where did I go wrong? I still have the external hard drive. I am assuming that the pictures with the edits and keywords are still on the external HD. OK, I'm probably hoping about that one.
If yes, how would I determine that? And how do I copy them over with the keywords and previously edited pictures. I'm probably not the first person to have this experience. Thank you and I appreciate the help.

First thing to understand is that LR uses a catalog too keep track of everything. When you import pictures into LR it doesn't move or copy the original files, it just takes note of where they are. When you make any adjustments or edits to the pictures these changes are kept in the catalog, the original picture file is never changed. You have to 'export' a new copy of the picture with the changes applied if you want to see/use it outwith LR.
On your new PC, having installed LR it will have created a new catalog. You need to get the LR catalog file from the old laptop, copy it to the new PC and get LR to open it. You should see your pictures and your edits. LR will show a symbol top right of every picture because it has 'lost' the pictures, in that it thinks they are on the external drive and it's now gone.
Under the Library tab select 'Find missing photos' to re-make the links.
The LR catalog is called *.lrcat where the '*' depends on what you called it when you installed LR or the default name which is something like Lightroom.lrcat. Exaclty what directory it's in depends on a few things that can vary depending on choices made at install time.
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