Thanks for coming to the Community for help, @mward.
I’m here with some insight regarding recovering missing or lost data.
QuickBooks has a feature called QuickBooks Auto Data Recovery (ADR) that can recover all or most of your data. They can do that by restoring lost transactions using your current Transaction Log file and a copy of your Company file or by restoring all but the last few hours of transactions with a copy of both your Company file and your Transaction Log file.
ADR is available in QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Enterprise Solutions for Windows but not in Accountant Editions. Make sure to update QuickBooks to the latest release before performing the steps given in this article: Recover lost data with QuickBooks Auto Data Recovery.
Detailed steps and screenshots are also included in the stated article.
Another way to recover the working copy of your company file is to ask your IT professional. They have the skills to extract the data from your old hard drive.
That should do it. Let me know how it goes. If you need anything else, leave a reply below. I’ll be more than happy to help. Thanks for dropping by and take care!
