Thumbnails in Elements 10 not linking to photos on correct Hard Drive

I use two separate internal HD's.  Primary HD has a C and D partition.  Secondary HD has a E and F portition.  The secondary HD is meant as a internal backup for programs (E) and for songs, photos, and critical files (F).  On the primary HD, under the D drive, I have all our family photos under D:\Photographs\ "then by year, ie. 2002, 2003.....2011".  Under the year folders I have subfolders by month and event.  Works well for us.   I mirror this setup on the secondary F drive.  (I also have backup on an external HD).  Everything was going smoothly when using Elements 7 (the thumbnails pointed to the D drive, then I upgraded to Elements 8 and somehow the program began pointing to the photos on the F drive, instead on the photos on the D drive.  Same problem continued to occurr when I upgraded to Elements 9 and 10.  
Apparently in Elements Organizer when the thumbnail images are displayed and a thumbnail image is selected the program goes out on the HD and finds the linked photo to display on the screen.  Somehow the default for my Elements are the photos on the F drive, not on the D drive.  (Can see the drive/file location under "properties").  Just plain odd.
When I upload photos from my camera to a new folder or subfolder, all is well.  Then I open Elements Organizer and select "Files/Get Photos and Videos/From Files and Folders" and select and upload the photos from the folder on my D drive, NOT the F drive, into Elements (not really true and I think just a thumbnail of the actual phot is created).  When opening an upload thumbnail the program starts search for "a missing file".  If I have uploaded the photos to both the D and F drives the program links to the F drive image.
After having this annoyance for some years today I uninstalled Elements 7 and 9 (had kept them on the system as Elements 7 correctly went from the thumbnail to the corresponding photo image on the D drive.  Then I also uninstalled Elements 10.  Renamed the folder for photographs  on the F drive so when I reinstalled Elements 10 that path would not be as it was.  Then I did a fresh install of Elements 10.  Opened Elements Organizer and again selected "Files/Get Photos and Videos/From Files and Folders" and uploaded all of thr photos from my D drive.  Lo and behold, same problem!!!  Even with a fresh install Elements 10 somehow is looking for (pointing to) photos with the old path name.  (The program is unable find the  old path as I changed (renamed) the path for photos on the F drive.  When a thumbnail is selected in Organizer it starts its search for a "missing file" which means it is looking for the old path name on the F drive! 
I have come to the comclusion that when I uninstalled Elements 10 a piece of it was left somewhere with this path coding that tells it to look for photos with the old path name on the F drive.  Since I uninstalled and reinstalled Elements it would not have known about the old path.  Has to be coding somewhere else that is telling it to go out to the old path name on the F drive.   
Spent time in "regedit" to see if I could find this "F:\Photograghs\........" path that could be modified to "D:\Photograths\........" with no luck.  Also went into the C drive Windows\Adobe\Elements folders but do not see anything to modfify that will solve this issue.
Am I stuck having to go back and rename the F drive folder to the old name so Elements can find the photos, or is there a "Guru" that knows how I can get Elements Organizer to point to the D drive when opening a thumbnail??
Thanks,
Bill Heston
[email protected]                                   

Hello,
I have the same problem as ElkGroveBill, with one exception: my two physical disks have different numbers.
D: is the drive where I have my originals in a folder "my pictures" and F: is thedrive where I have my backup in a folder "my pictures" (same structure of sub-folders).
I have about 5000 photos that contain all of the tags that I would not lose.
I have modified the file name in F ("_mes photos") for PSE starts the automatic reconnection, but it first looks in C: and it's very long!!
Is it possible to make him look directly into D: \ my pictures?
Thank you in advance.

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