[musicalkel]

So I have one of the wonderful Dell laptops that needed the replacement battery. I have (in the past) been good about backing my files up, but had neglected to back up my honeymoon pictures and videos. I changed the battery as told and something screwed my computer up. I can't get into the files that held my documents or my photos. Dell is absolutely NO help (even though I have a sneaky suspicion that it was something to do with the battery they sent...my computer was fine and virus-free prior), except to say to send the harddrive away. I can't afford that at all (JUST out of college and making squat).

We tried reinstalling and repairing windows, but I fear we just screwed it up more.

I downloaded the trial version of RMF and it looks like it is finding all (or most) of my files. It sounds (from the other forums) that I should be fairly successful at recovering my files, but I don't really have $80 to **** if it doesn't work. Any feed back would be helpful regarding whether it would work or not.