Yeah the system recovery on my Hp would wipe all things in my documents too...It restored everything to factory settings....I doubt you will get them back.
i also doubt you will get them back too....I cold be wrong though.
By the way it does explain in the system recovery that if you do a Desttructive system recovery that all files will be deleted and everything set back to default factory settings.
And please dont double post in diffrent sections of the forum...