All files lost after doing a system recovery.

I had a virus on my computer and foolishly made a recovery of the entire system before backing up my files. Now, I've lost everything, including the course materials College 2 and 4 years of photos. I have a HP dv6700 laptop. I brought to a store to support local tech, but after putting my car in a recovery workstation, the workstation was unable to recognize the drive. In the notes they gave me when I went to pick up my computer that they mentioned "Partition is skipped".  After "try file scavenger to recover data, but again once does not recognize the disk partition".  I'm not talking tech if someone can translate? My main question is, is all hope lost to recover my files? And is there anything else I can try?

There's not much hope, unless you want to spend $$$

Read this anyway;

If you have an installation clean back to factory settings, you normally wiped your hard drive clean during the process.

You can try this program:

http://www.SnapFiles.com/get/Recuva.html

Recuva is a file undeletion tool that allows you to analyze your hard drives or media cards for files that have been deleted or formatted. It presents you a list of files that have been found, as well as an assessment of their potential for recovery, a preview option, and a hex viewer to inspect the content. You can limit your search to files of a certain type (e.g. images, audio etc.) and choose between a quick and a thorough analysis approach. The program also includes a secure deletion option that allows you to permanently delete files that were found while parsing, to avoid any future recoveries.

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Find a windows.old folder, because we don't know exactly how you have installed.

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/932912

How to recover files from an earlier version of Windows in Windows Vista

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If none of the above solves your problem, try data recovery companies.

Be warned: they are $$$

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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