Motherboard fried -- replaced with new computer -- now need to salvage catalogs from old drives

Rather than replace the fried motherboard on an old box running Windows XP, I bought a new box running 64-bit Windows 8.1. I have my two 11-year-old internal sata drives attached to the new box with USB enclosures, plus my old 300 MB usb drive. I have fresh backups of 'My Catalog', 'My Catalog 2', and all the 12,000 photos. I also appear to still have download rights to my original copy of Adobe Elements 9 (thank you for that, Adobe).
I copied the contents of the old C drive (now 'J:') onto the new C drive under AppData/Local/Adobe/Elements Organizer/Catalogs and Pictures/Adobe/Digital Camera Photos and then stopped, realizing I didn't know what I was doing.
What I DON'T have is the ability to 'repair' or optimize the catalog or to view the catalog to identify original drive letters for the second internal drive and the external usb drive (now they are 'K:' and 'L'), nor do I know what else besides 'My Catalog' and the photos need to be on the new C drive. Or if I even have the option of moving to the new C drive, as opposed to continuing to run off what is now 'J:'.
So, I'm thinking that if I just install Elements 9 again, a) it won't find any of my photos b) I will probably have empty albums, since I haven't found any 'My Collection' files and c) I will lose all my version sets. Or maybe I'm just being too pessimistic.
Ideally I would like to put everything on the new C drive and just get rid of the three old drives, but the main thing is to salvage the version sets and albums.
Can anyone advise me on how to set the drives up so that Elements will find my version sets and albums when I do a fresh install of Photoshop Elements?

I was indeed too pessimistic. I purchased a copy of Elements 13; installed it; went into Manage Catalogs and pointed it at My Catalog; and then took the options to convert, repair, and optimize. Lo and behold, within seconds it had found all my folders and albums and everything was there as it should be.

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