This maybe the last place

This maybe the last place I'm going to find help, otherwise...I'm lost.

I have (had) important documents on my hard-drive that were erased, when somebody downgraded my pc to XP from Vista. I tried using data recovery programs like TestDisk. But from what I see it only sees the new OS files. I haven't installed anything new to the hard-drive...Is there a way?

Is it still possible to access these files? There are hundreds of pages of important writing that I need!!!!

Well, if the OS has been installed freshly by formatting the drive then there is no way you can retrieve previous data from it even if you use a third party software.

I had used such a software earlier. It was Easy Recovery tool. After formatting, I could see most of my previous data when scanned through this program. I tried to recover some data. It was able to recover the music files and I was so happy :dj2:. But when I tried to recover some documents, like say, MS Word or PDF file, or pics...it could recover the file but with empty contents :(

You can search for this 'Easy Recovery tool' for download. (I had got it from a friend). The latest version of the program might have fixed the bugs and could be more effective now :g: Try your luck on it.

haha...I am using an authentic version of Stellar Phoenix, I have all the files I wish to recover, hen I click recover though. A message box comes up, saying something about not having the required resources? I tried googling this but nothing came up.

:crybaby: okay, stellar phoenix lets me handle my files all of a sudden. but once I recover them and go to open the folder they are in, the folders are empty. This is only the case with some files, some random dll files from a printer setup or something that I accidentally recovered worked fine. So lost...