Restore catalog to new hard drive on same PC

I am using PSE 5 on Win XP.
I had an unexpected (aren't they all)Win XP Op. Sys. problem that required my technician to install a new hard drive with Win XP Op Sys.
The old drive is still in the computer and all data is accessible. (It was drive 'C' and is now drive 'F'. The new drive is now 'C')
All my pictures (5000+)are still there and on drive 'F'.
I re-installed PSE 5 on the new drive 'C'.
How can I get my catalogs ( there are 4 of them) from Drive 'F' to the new PSE 5 on drive 'C'? Is there a drag and drop method? If so, where are the catalogs data located and what file name?
I do have an old backup from last April on an external hard drive but as usual it is missing my latest photos. If possible, I would like to recover all my old catalogs from the old drive but will use the backup if necessary.
A second question is, if I use the restore feature from the external HD, it asks if I want to restore to the "original location" or a "new location".
Does this mean that the "original location" would be the external HD or the original location on the computer which is now drive 'F'?
Thanks
Dave Mason

Paige:
I found the .psa folders in the hidden files just where you said they would be.
So now I was thinking, can I just move/copy these .psa catalogs to the "C" drive and then reconnect all the album photos back to the "F" drive where they are stored? This may take some time but I don't like to do any unneccesary moving.
Thanks
Dave Mason
Paige,
I don't know what happened to your post. Forum is really acting quirky but below is a partial copy of your reponse.
Your catalogs are .psa files on what is now your F drive. Search for them. You may have to make folders unhidden for them to be found. When you find them, move them to your C drive anywhere where you can find them easily.
Also, you need to move your photos from F to C. The folder names, the folder tree, and the file names, should be *exactly* what they were before. You can do this via drag and drop, or copy and paste, in Windows. If they were in C:\My Pictures\Some_Stupid_Folder_Name before, then that's exactly where they should be after you copy them to the new C Drive.
Then, double-click on one of your catalog files, and you should be up and running. The catalog may have to rebuild thumbnails, which takes quite a long time if you have a lot of photos, but it will work.

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July 12, 2010
Hello,
Thank you for any help you can give with this rather desperate problem.
I have installed a replacement hard drive in my Dell Windows Vista laptop and reloaded Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0. I am unable to reconnect Elements with my old photo organizer catalog.
Thus the system says I have Elements installed, with a catalog with zero photos in it. When in fact I have 12,000 fotos all captioned, dated and tagged for the Elements organizer.
Elements HELP has nothing about reconnecting to an old photo catalog.
Is it possible (???) that Elements does not keep the catalog separate from the program itself – so that when the program itself is lost in the switch to a new hard drive, the catalog is also lost (unless the user made a backup somewhere)?
Anyway, here’s what happened:
I had made a fairly recent backup of the catalog to an external hard drive, so I copied that backup onto my new hard drive. Then in the Elements Organizer, I clicked on File; Restore Catalog from CD, DVD or Hard Drive. In the window that popped up, I directed it to the backup file (Backup.tly) and specified a location for restoring files and catalog. Then I clicked on Restore.
Up came a window that named one of my 12,000 fotos and said these approximate words “File already exists, do you want to overwrite it?”. I finally said Yes, and then it went on to another of my 12,000 fotos and asked the same question. I assume it planned to go through all 12,000 fotos, but I can’t imagine why.
But instead of continuing, I then got a window that said, “Error encountered while restoring catalog. It is recommended that you contact your disc drive manufacturer and upgrade to the latest available firmware for your specific disc drive before trying again.” (By the way, all my other programs are working fine on the new hard drive.)
I sure hope someone out there can tell me what’s going on. Thank you so much.
Don

You copied the backup onto your new hard drive? Yes or no? Where was it before?
Then did you try to restore to the exact same location where you placed the copy?
HEre is the proper way to restore a catalog: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402894.html
By the way ... you say: "Elements HELP has nothing about reconnecting to an old photo catalog." I disagree.
You say: "Is it possible (???) that Elements does not keep the catalog separate from the program itself" not only is it possible, but Elements does indeed keep the catalog separate from the program itself.

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Arlee wrote:
My MBPro totally crashed and just got it back from Apple with a new hard drive, logic board, optical super drive, one new 1GB ram chip, and a new video display panel. My questions are two fold, first, have I had so much replaced on this machine that I need to use Migration Assistant instead of Time Machine to restore it?
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