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If it goes well for you this is a good free recovery tool that might get some of your lost files back.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Just to avoid confusions for anyone reading this, if you reformat your drive, install Windows anew and then expect to recover files with Recuva (or any other file-recovery tool for that matter), your probability of success in recovering files is VERY LOW. That’s not the way file-recovery tools usually work.
Oh believe me I have retrieved hundreds of lost photos video & Documents using this off computers.
If someone can save say 30 photos out of 50 — I would say that was a result.
The only way to fully wipe a computers hard drive is to write zeros using special programs.
I have even retrieved data from supposedly over written Files that used DoD 5220-22.M to over write.
I’m not recommending this to anyone, just a suggestion. End of Report