Lost my LR catalog, HELP!

I have lost my LR cat file. Not sure how this happened but I have tried everything. I had a corrupted external SSD that I had been using to store photos but LR Classic is on my laptop. I realized it was corrupted because I couldn't write to it. Luckily I could still get all the files off it. I moved everything to a new external HDD and reformatted my SSD. I am pretty sure my catalog was housed on my laptop but even if it was on the corrupted drive I had moved everything off it before reformatting. I have the catalog preview file but not the actual catalog anywhere. I’m pretty depressed thinking I will have to start a new catalog, import thousands of photos and have lost all the edits.  Is there any hope for my situation?