Sh%t!
Hate those pirats that call themselves professionals... How can you not backup all the info no matter what...how can you not ask the client wich information is vital or it there is no valuable info.
This drove me nuts, sry.
If they didn't format the disk but they only restored the boot manager maybe there's a chance to go to a restoration point ( you could perfectly try it to see if there is some existing restoration point, in wich case you can be sure it was not formatted). Sometimes they say they reinstalled but they didn't and it was only a boot failure.
Keep on Gillian ;)
No. There aren't any restoration points @drakernoise. I tried that before I even took the computer to the shop.
Windows doesn't create them now. Nor can you get in with a safe install.
The annoying thing is (well one of the many annoying things is) that Windows was in a separate partition which I created deliberately for times such as these. If they'd bothered to look the could have just reinstalled the operating system and left my C drive alone, which is where my files are.
Anyway. No use wallowing. What's done is done. Now I need to begin the job of finding all the places I have photographs stored, and there are rather a lot of them. 😢
Good to hear from you anyway. You've not been around much. Do still have a lot going on?
Yeah Gillian, I'm barely able to read some posts a day most of them related to music which by other hand, you know, asks me for more practicing time...
About the data issue, nothing to be added, you created a data partition that is a really great practice regarding backup stuff. They simply did it totally wrong.
Life goes on so another ítem for the list, reordering your shots. Fortunately you made cloud backups wich is very convenient.
A matter of time and effort now...
Yep. I'm just going to put it behind me and start again @drakernoise and do a bit each day. 😊