Recovering catalog from a disk backup

I've recently had a disk failure, so I need to recover all of my pictures and PSE catalog. I don't have a backup done by PSE, but I do have a comprehensive backup of everything that was on the failed disk. How do I get my PSE catalog back the way it was? Is it just a question of moving some files & directories across to the new disk? If so, which ones? Or is it more complicated?
Thanks.

You need to find your catalog file, and all your photos.
The easiest thing to do is to put all your photos back to the EXACT SAME folders they were in before the crash. Then move the catalog file to the new hard disk and double-click on it.

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For a few days ago my iMac (with Mountain Lion) wouldn't start, just showed the white screen with the 'thinking-circle' - no further… But I wasn't worried , because I had a Time Machine backup. So I restarted, holding down the option key. Then I chose to restore from the backup i had made. It started, but there wasn't going much time before it stopped, said there was an error with the backup.… When it started up again, tried again it said the same. So from there I couldn't boot the iMac, and i couldn't restore it with the Time Machine backup.
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My iTunes library was about 2.000 songs and 100 videos + app's + podcast… (haven't tried copying that yet, only the images because they are my main issue…)
If you have read all this, thank you for that. Hope you see my frustration and hopefully have some ideas of what to do?.. Recover from the original hdd - recover backup hdd - or fix the files / copy them from the corrupted backup somehow? Please help...
From Glenn :-)

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