New Hard Disk, But Catalog Still Pointing to Old Hard Disk

This has been increadibly frustrating. I was doing what I thought would be a simple Hard disk swap to a larger size for an expanding catalog:
Installed new drive (windows 7 machine)
Copied entire contents of the old drive (includes the catalog and all media)
Changed the old drive letter to something new (still has all the media on it)
Changed the new drive letter to the old drive letter in hopes that Adobe would recognize this as where the media is now located.
When I opened up elements organizer and the catalog is located on the new drive, but the media is still pointing to the old drive. What is going on here? I feel like Adobe is trying to outsmart me with their database or something. Somehow Adobe is following my old drive around.
I tried another route where I did an adobe restore using "original location" and the darn thing restored to my old drive. Isn't "original location" tied to a drive letter?
-Dazed and confused.

Simple answer :
No, the drive location is not tied to the drive letter only. That was true in oder versions before PSE6. That led to so many problems with the generalization of removable USB drives that Adobe tied the drive location to :
- 1) drive serial number
- 2) drive letter
More about this :
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/#_Writing_File_Metadata
So,
nortorp a écrit:
When I opened up elements organizer and the catalog is located on the new drive, but the media is still pointing to the old drive. What is going on here? I feel like Adobe is trying to outsmart me with their database or something. Somehow Adobe is following my old drive around.
Yes it is...
I tried another route where I did an adobe restore using "original location" and the darn thing restored to my old drive. Isn't "original location" tied to a drive letter?
Yes, original location means the original physical media.
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/backup-restore-move-catalog-photoshop.html

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