Wrong Drive Letter in Catalog after new SSD

Had a new SSD installed in windows 7 desktop. It is now the C drive and the old hard drive is F. All the photos are on C as is the catalog (per system information under Help) but the catalog shows the path for all photos to F drive. There are no photos on the F drive. I can open all the photos but cannot add new ones. New scanned photos go to C and elements automatically "finds" them but the new photos screen is just a "?" and Elements cannot bring them into the catalog. I have about 10,000 pictures. Any help wood be appreciated. Thanks

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Had a new SSD installed in windows 7 desktop. It is now the C drive and the old hard drive is F. All the photos are on C as is the catalog (per system information under Help) but the catalog shows the path for all photos to F drive. There are no photos on the F drive. I can open all the photos but cannot add new ones. New scanned photos go to C and elements automatically "finds" them but the new photos screen is just a "?" and Elements cannot bring them into the catalog. I have about 10,000 pictures. Any help wood be appreciated. Thanks
That's how the Organizer works. The drive is not only recognized by the letter, but also by the serial number of the drive. (The reason for that is that removable drives can change letter when plugged in depending on the other peripherals already plugged in). That's why one of the most repeated advice when changing drives or computers is to use the backup/restore method.
Use Backup, Restore to move catalog | Organizer | Elements 6 or later
What can you do now? I assume you don't have the full backup needed for that process.
You can 'reconnect' your files:
Photoshop Elements (PSE) knowledge base.
That's not easy and time consuming, generally.
Or you could copy your picture folders tree back to their original position on drive F (except the newly imported ones). That should reconnect everything.
Once reconnected, delete all those picture files on C.
You can either use the backup and restore method to recreate everything in your C: drive.
Or simply use the organizer to move those files back from F to C.
In the left folders panel, you can drag and drop your folder tree from F to C (be patient for that copy). The files moved from the Organizer won't be diconnected.

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