Old computer died, I try to restore my photos from a Windows backup

My old computer overheated to the point that the D: drive, where I kept my data, practically melted.  Fortunately, I'm religious about backups, so I had a store of the local computer to install a new D: drive and restored most of my data from a backup on an external hard drive.  Unfortunately, hard drives are also faulty - the store of the local computer has been able to get data out of it, but none of my photos.  I had a fairly recent backup containing all my photo files (created with Windows Backup and Restore).

I was able to find the catalog folder and restored to the default location (C:/Program Data/Adobe/Elements Organizer/catalogues).  The Organizer is this catalogue.  It contains 2 folders (BreezeData, which contains 422 files in the breeze - 1.xml format and a file named BreezeSession.dat) and (syncdb, which contains a file named .pref only).  It also contains the following files: backupCt.dat, catalog.pse9db, collstatus.dat, face.thumb.9.cache, itemData.mk4, tagstatus.dat and thumb.5.cache.  However, none of my tags appear in the Organizer.  I tried to repair the catalog, has received the message that he did nothing to fix and clicked "fix anyway", which did not improve the situation.

Is there another file I want to find and restore to make it work correctly?

I've restored some of my files real image at the same location and file structure, they were on the old computer.  However, PES 9 cannot find them.  I tried "reconnect" files and get the message that there are no files to reconnect.  If I can "import" the Organizer, I lose all my games version (and I have a lot of them).  I realize I can stack both original and edited to the same photo, but the editor does not recognize them as versions.  In addition, I lose all of my tags.

Is it possible to find photos Organizer without losing the tags and version sets?  The Organizer is the legends I posted.

I already bought 12 PES, but I thought I would more successful if I got 9 PES successfully restored, then do the upgrade.

Any help would be appreciated.

This isn't really an answer, just an update.

I could finally solve the problem!  I uninstalled PES 9 (should I use Revo Uninstaller, but I forgot to do it, I just use the Control Panel, programs & features, uninstall a program).  Then I went in the ProgramData folder and deleted everything that seemed to relate to Adobe PSE, including the catalog folder (there was a lot of it).  I restarted the computer and re-installed PES 9 (I had already recovered all the image files by using the backup and restore).  This time, when I reconnect, all the missing files, the program itself almost found everything!  I always had some cleaning to do (mostly duplicate) and I re - transfer all the photos I have taken with my two cameras since the backup just before this disaster, but at least I have (I think) recovered the majority of photographs of 7 years.  I noticed while I was doing the cleanup that aren't all filename (I let just the IMG_ # assigned by the camera) was there, but I guess the missing numbers of file name are the photos that I have deleted or moved to a folder, which I call "Trash" for photos that will take much more time to fix that I immediately - if they can be fixed at all.

The recovered photos retain the decors of the version and the tags that have been initially assigned!

Having experienced this, I encourage everyone to back up their files regularly and remember the directory where the catalog file is stored!  If the catalog file is lost, you are toast!

If anyone has a similar problem, do not hesitate to let me know and I'll try to help with a more detailed explanation.

For what it's worth, Adobe has been of no assistance (Fortunately we were disconnected before that I gave them my credit card number for the they wanted to even talk about the problem of $39.99).  Similarly, I used successfully justanswer.com for any complicated problem where (the destroyed computer) HP or Dell (my new computer) couldn't help, but they were unable to help him with this problem.

I think I have a little more work to do, including the loading of my recent photos, but I intend to start converting the files recovered in PSE 12 soon.

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