How to access desktop files from a previous hard drive

I recently switched hard drives due to some unrelated issues with a cpu/motherboard. I had to do a fresh install of windows, and I am now running it through a different drive (My C drive is now a different drive). My old drive (F drive currently) is still installed, and has all of my files from before.

The only thing I cannot manage to find though is the desktop files. I had some files on the desktop of what is now the F drive that do not show up. I'm a bit confused as to why they're not there if I didn't lose any other data. I can access the Dektop folder of the F drive, but the contents inside are not what was on my desktop at the time i dealt with the hardware issues. Specifically, the folder that it shows on the desktop was from potentially years ago.

I remember having one-drive populate my previous desktop when it was set up initially. Was I running some sort of virtual desktop or something? I checked my one-drive online but can't see anything from when my F drive was the primary drive.

Edit: Looking at the restore options in onedrive, the previous desktop's files are not showing up there either. The hard drive swap would have happened about 18-20 days ago and onedrive can supposedly restore up to 30 back.