Desperately Seeking Lightroom Help

[davemitchellimages]

Hi folks,

I am having some possibly terminal problems with my Lightroom catalogue. Long story short, I have spent weeks on forums etc ( Adobe ) and I think that my lack of knowledge has led me down a rabbit hole [trying to] get it resurrected.
I am wondering if anyone knows [how] to get this nightmare sorted out.

In short, during an attempt to move to a new external drive, I have somehow lost all of my previous edits now that I am on the new drive. I removed the old one and reimported from the new one, apparently this was ( according to Adobe support members ), a major mistake.

I currently have two external drives with my collection of photos in them but after moving to the new drive in Lightroom, I have no access to previous edits. All the collection are as when I removed the original hard drive. I have catalogue backups in various places but none seem to bring back the edits when I open from them to the new drive. I suspect that I may have lost them altogether.

So, as you can see, I have accepted that it is beyond me and need ... help.
Any suggestions are welcome.

Many thanks,

Dave