restoring catolog, photoshop elements 14

[timmylostboy]

running win 10, elements 14

lost my exturnal drive(f) which cat was stored on.

software did reconnect some photos, maybe half

do have another exturnal drive(k) , which i did a cat back up to,( also did a direct copty of  files on the bad ex drive.

but  when i try and do a restore cat   it says nothing is their ( in the cat backup file) 

when i run reconnect missing files it does not find them on the backup drive. (k)

if i click on a missing file -pic- it will search and find it and reconnect all photos in that file

so do i do that way is like 100 files. 

or would you  uninstall  and reinstall software and let it find and rebuild cat ?

[timmylostboy]

maybe i need to update software and rebuild cat