Drag & Drop of folder Lightroom on a new computer

I know that this has been answered once doz... and more... but 'find' a response that is not related to Version 3 or is several years old is the problem...

Anywho... Last week, I "literally" dragged my folder full of photos (and documents) in an external hard drive.  Then I got my PC wiped clean, restored and reloaded with Windows 10.

I just downloaded Adobe Creative cloud to the new - computer laptop Win-10.   I signed in CC and then downloaded Adobe Photoshop CC.

....... I am ready to download and install LR CC to my computer, but I should-

(1) made drag the photo folder is on the external hard drive to the hard drive of the laptop first?     The "photo" folder is set by default the Lightroom folder with all my catalogs, backups, etc...

(2) once LR is installed... it will not have files/catalog associated with all the... And that's where I get confused when you look at all the videos of YouTube, I found...   I'm confused how to get 'Lightroom' to repopulate catalogs and all the photos they were before (I have several)

(3) clarification more...  In the use of 'Previous' in Lightroom - my catalog has worked with pictures in my laptop hard drive and external hard drive both. I need Lightroom to find all those pictures also.

Thank you!!!

Your operating system using, put everything back where it was before. Double-click a catalog file to open it.

Future simplification proposal: use a single catalog for all your photos.

Tags: Photoshop Lightroom

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