Moving hard drive with all of elements 11 to a new computer

I've already installed the hard drive, and set up windows 8.1 on a separate 1 gig drive.  What's the easiest way to get Elements set up with all my tags etc.  Can i just install Elements, and point it to the hard drive i installed with all my photos, and videos?  I have an incremental back up, but i'm hoping i can just use my Elements hard drive. My windows 7 computer died, and i put the Elements hard drive into my new windows 8.1 rig.  I don't want to lose all the tagging, and marking of photos and videos i've done.
Thanks,

When you boot the new machine for the first time, you'll be prompted to import your data from a Time Machine backup.

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