posted on Nov, 18 2008 @ 09:56 PM
1) Don't use it, doing so will invite past data to be overwritten causing permanent loss.
2) Which ever one of your friends you generally go to with PC problems, go to him.
3) Pray to the flying spaghetti monster
Data recovery is one of the trickiest aspects of PC repair, also the most expensive if you want it done professionally (many thousands). It can be
done though, I do it routinely for friends if there's no physical damage.
It's too much to try an explain unfortunately
You need to find someone who's done it. A live version of KNOPPIX is a good start, Test Disk, I've
used some good WinPE tools.
Also depends if you did a quick format or full format where it overwrites the sectors with 00000's