all changes, ratings, and keywords went

I hope someone here can help me, I'm at my wit's end and can not find answers online either.
I use LR5 (Win7) and have my photos and catalog on an external HD (E :). We are talking about 45 000 photos, taking about 1.2 TB. Please bear with me it's complicated and scary.

When I turned on LR the other day, I had forgotten to plug in my HD external (e) first. When I did it after the fact, LR practically crashed. Even after a reboot, the structure of the catalog was there, but pictures were gone and LR was looking for a F: drive, even if the connected HD is E:. So I added the E: drive to the section of the new file and imported pictures. Since then, ever-present F:, grayed, in the section files and cannot be deleted. Everything went well at first glance, the pictures were there, but after awhile, I realized that all my changes, the sides and keywords disappeared! Only a few pictures, which had been published in a different and backup software in LR as .tiff or .jpg had retained information. After unsuccessfully trying different things, I decided that my catalog must be corrupted. I find the previous backup on my C; by car (unfortunately, this backup is missing about 15 hours of work, I know - I know...) and started LR with this catalog backup and everything worked well. So I copied that backup to HD (E :) and renames to my usual catalog name (I renamed and kept the original, "corrupt" too).) Low and behold, this copy of the catalogue backup suddenly didn't work more. He has done exactly as "corrupt." So I went back to the original location of the Catalog backup on the C: drive and attempted to restart LR in there once again, and it does NOT more more. And creepy it is, it shows the structure of the correct catalog, seems to have all the changes, ratings and keywords, but is looking for images on the F: drive that does not exist! Well, it does not actually exist, but it's my backup drive that is not connected. The E: drive does not appear in the records section at all, as when it happened first. An older backup that I will go back to doing the same thing now. BTW: at some point during the race together, I upgraded to 5.7 LR., in the hope that it could solve the problem in which case LR itself had been damaged. Made no difference.

Help!

As you have discovered, re-importation of pictures will often lose metadata (changes, keywords, captions, collections, etc.), and so re-entry is the last resort when you cannot recover a working catalog.

In your case, I think the problem is that some windows point renamed drive letters.  Rather than worry about how it happened, we will focus on obtaining a working catalog.  You said that your backup of the catalog references the F: drive, rather than the E: drive.  It is easy to fix, according to the methods described in the link DJ_Paige posted above.

1. once more, make a copy of the backup catalog and open LR on this copy.

2. in the LR Folders pane, find the F: drive. The folders listed under the F: drive should have a "?" on them, indicating that they are "missing" (in other words, they run sites that think LR does not exist in reality).

3 right click on one of the top-level folders, and select view the Parent folder:

Repeat until the folder in the foreground is F:.

4. right click on the folder in the foreground F: (which will have a "?" on it) and select find missing folder:

A file browser will open - select E: and click Select folder.

5. at this point, the folders pane should show the E: drive, no "?" on folders, and you should be able to navigate to all of its files and display photos in folders. The folders pane may still present the F: drive, with '? ' on his records - if so, restart LR and it will disappear.

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