Thanks a lot. Your first idea is very good, I hadn't thought of doing that. I will also try gpart and foremost. I thought backups as a business is probably al

Thanks a lot. Your first idea is very good, I hadn't thought of doing that. I will also try gpart and foremost. I thought backups as a business is probably already done well, so I thought recovery would be good. I suppose backups for individuals would still be a good idea. But I'd think there are still quite a few people who lose data the way I have and there just doesn't seem to be a good straightforward solution. None of the ones suggested here appeared on google.