OK here is the story... My girlfriend and her twin sister cant afford to buy office 07 so her sister asked one of their friend to install a pirated copy on their computer after my gf told her to not do that. Her sister asked him then He came and did it, blue screen came up, was having problems. I was totally not aware of this was happening, or knowing she asked him to come, i have always advised her aganist using pirated copies from somebody else and also recommened to not obtain any at all.
Anyways so he said oh I'll just do a system restore back to factory setting and everything will be fine. Well after the computer rebooted, all data from 4-5 yrs is gone. I went over there yesterday to work on it. Her sister told me that he said that he didnt want to restore it to the last point, just wanted to do factory setting. I'm like ok, never ask anyone unless theyre certified and are a business to work on computers, or just ask me since i have years and years of customizing computers, fixing them for friends.
Anyways, this is my first of a system restore gone bad fix issue. As i am looking at it, it has 250 gb harddrive, only 84 gb is free. so obviously its all there still under something. I cant find it. I ran active uneraser, and diskinternal uneraser. they cant find it. so I brought it home, going to take hdd out and hook it up to my computer as slave and work on it. Any suggestions? I have read a few things online and seems like its pretty much most recoverable. Just hope it is on this one too. I havent got time to do full research on this yet, been busy.