How do I find a specific file in a different drive?

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I just wiped my SSD and reinstalled Windows 10 on it and configured it as my boot drive. The SSD is fine but the installation went a bit wonky for my second drive because I forgot to unplug the SATA cable on it, and now I have 4 copies of Windows 10 installed on my secondary drive. But that complicates things because there was one important text document I had in a file on my desktop that I forgot to back up and I have no idea how I can manage to find it on the second drive. I tried looking for it in the search bar for the drive and that took forever to load, only to present me with some system folders.
 
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But when I go under users for all of the windows copies it is either empty or contains a folder called Public containing a bunch of empty folders. That is a result of all the incomplete installations
 
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This pc/drive name or letter/user name/ documents/, unless you had it under a different folder than the default documents folder. Once you find the drive you can use the search and find the file.
 
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there are 3 windows.old files. Windows.old, Windows.old.000, Windows.old.001. And I noticed a large decrease in the amount of taken space so I assume that the file I was looking for is now gone or severely corrupted.
 
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In all of the Windows.old folders the only file under windows.old is "Public" and there is nothing else left. I don't quite remember if I tried to format the disk but due to the absence of so many folders, I think I may have done an incomplete format. Then I definitely remember the Windows install process looping over and there were likely incomplete installs in each loop.
 
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If you formatted the drive it's gone. You may be able to get some of it back if you use very specific software but that is only a maybe. I'm afraid that you will not be able to get that file back no matter how you go about it.
 
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Ok, well that's pretty unfortunate. I guess I can live without it and make a new one but that would take a very long time. But thanks everyone for your help I really appreciate it!
 
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