You don't want to install anything on that drive.
You don't even want to boot up that machine anymore.
Every time you boot up that machine and or install software on it you risk overwriting your old wallet.dat and that will definitely send your coins down the black hole without the possibility of recovery.
I just can't understand why people give the advice to install stuff like recovery software onto that drive it's the words possible advice you can give someone that is trying to recover their lost funds.
We have seen cases where the user installed easus recovery on top of his old wallet.dat and the act of installing the recovery software overwrite the old wallet data which made it impossible to recover the funds.

The best way to recover your funds is to boot up that machine from a dvd or usb stick and mount the drive read only so that you can be sure that the data is preserved.
Then you can run a recovery software to look for the file.
The problem is usually that the USB stick will be too small to save all the files that the utility finds.
So a better solution is to remove the drive and hook it up to another computer that has enough disk space to save the recovered files.
Also windows is not your friend for this task.
Linux is free and has the best recovery tools available, which are also free so don't think about spending one buck on recovery software because it's no needed at all.