Kimberly needs help with data recovery

[Kimberly]

Ok so my older sister got mad at me and she figured out how to reformat my hard drive. I caught her just as she was trying to enter the product key, so does that mean that she did not complete the Windows install? I had a friend come over and we downloaded E.A.S.E.U.S Data Recovery and did a scan. I see 80,000 files listed but I am confused. I only see my pics, some music, some text, and odd and end files, and alot of the previews of the files are just jibberish. Am I to assume that there is NO WAY to restore my hard drive to what it was before the wipe? No programs? No games? No Favorites? Just SOME of the basic files? I had no backup. My entire life was on that hard drive. I read about imaging the drive but I am clueless to this. I don't have much money and just bought an external drive with the last of my savings to try to fix this. I really need some guidance.

Thx,

Kimberly
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[PohTayToez]

Ok so my older sister got mad at me and she figured out how to reformat my hard drive. I caught her just as she was trying to enter the product key, so does that mean that she did not complete the Windows install? I had a friend come over and we downloaded E.A.S.E.U.S Data Recovery and did a scan. I see 80,000 files listed but I am confused. I only see my pics, some music, some text, and odd and end files, and alot of the previews of the files are just jibberish. Am I to assume that there is NO WAY to restore my hard drive to what it was before the wipe? No programs? No games? No Favorites? Just SOME of the basic files? I had no backup. My entire life was on that hard drive. I read about imaging the drive but I am clueless to this. I don't have much money and just bought an external drive with the last of my savings to try to fix this. I really need some guidance.

Thx,

Kimberly
[email protected]

Sorry, but if she got all the way through the format and most of the way through a Windows install then what you see is pretty much what you get. I would recommend doing a scan with WinDirStat, which should help you locate folders in which you had large groups of pictures or music, but as far as restoring the hard drive to it's original state, that's out of the question at this point.