Thanks for the reply. You have confirmed what I thought most likely. I can't remember anything about the wallet I recieved the DOGE into. I have one HDD that might have been the D drive at that time but the C drive was an SSD and has been changed and reused in various machines as I've upgraded my main rig.
If the D drive is not overwritten, then you could try using some good recovery software to restore the files from the drive uncorrupted. The reason we wanted to know the wallet software you installed back then was to find out if it stored any encrypted wallet files locally on your PC. If there is a chance that you can recover the encrypted wallet files, I also hope you still remember the passwords you might have used back then for the wallet, and that is also very important.I've actually managed to find the reciepts for the two 3TB HDD (one is failing) that might be one of the drives part of the DOGE wallet was installed on. The purchase date was Mar 2014 so I probably bought them to upgrade smaller storage drives in the system. However there are two possibilities which ruin this: I used the two 3TB HDD's in a different mini PC I'd set up and in that case they never had a wallet on them until. The other possibilty is that I set the two 3TB drives as a stripping raid array for perormance. Would I get anything back from a stripped array?