You have spent many hours working to restore your deleted files but a solution still eludes you. What do you do next? One choice is to call in a qualified technician, but before you do that you should consider using special software designed to help you recover lost files.
There is always the possibility the software would not work because your computer may have physical damage. However, you have a choice of several software programs available for your use. Some are freeware and some are shareware. Freeware means you can download and use a program without having to buy it. On the other hand, shareware often comes with a free trial but if you like it you have to buy it, else the program stops working.
There are so many available that it would be impossible to review them all. Therefore, you should simply understand there are some high quality software for data recovery that can work to recover at the minimum partial lost data. Many of the available packages give you choices to organize and search for your lost data. This saves you the time of having to sort through several files you have deleted since you bought the computer.
In data recovery, a serious problem occurs when you somehow manage to delete files that were in a partition. Do not create a new partition for them because the data might still be salvageable. If you try to create a new partition, you will permanently wipe out the data. Your chosen software for data recovery may still have the ability to recover the lost files even if the partition is gone. You have choices, run the utility on a different partition, remove the damaged hard drive and put it in a different computer, or install a different hard drive altogether.