I did something stupid! All input on recovery welcome

[Loekie]

Hi guys,

I planned on doing something good for my pc, formatting the C drive and do a clean install.
So I thought I made a backup of all my important stuff on a different partition and external drive.
A few days later.. i discover my most important files are GONE:(
I accidentally deleted them from drive (D:), thinking I already made a backup of them and then went on formatting the C: drive.
(it's one disk, partitioned into two sections)

I've been able to recover some files partially (word 2007), and none of the excel 2007 files. They seem too damaged according to the software I used.

I tried the following recovery software: Easy Recovery professional, Icare data recovery, Stellar Phoenix recovery.
For repairing the files after recovery I tried: Easy recovery professional and Office Recovery, where the last seems to have done the best job. But still it would be nice to have all files back.

So any advice or tips are welcome. Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts on this.

Greetings!

Loekie

[Alexii]

Unfortunately rule of thumb is overwritten info is lost. U can try some other logical recovery software but chances on a better recovery are slim. Give a shot to R-Studio or Recover My Files.

[ShellGameBot]

You never said what you did to your C: drive once it was formatted. Not being psychic, I need to assume that you proceeded with an installation of an (unnamed) operating system on C: ? And then you expect to find files on the drive that you overwrote with OS files?

I think more info would help us. The age of C: drive, the OS before and after, the partitioning scheme sizes and what drive the valuable data used to be on. NTFS or FAT or ??

I think I would recommend GetDataBack, but before you drop the money for that, I would like to know those things. At least it has a trial. If you didn't do an OS install, then recovery should be a breeze (as you may already know by now).