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‎07-10-2025 07:01 PM

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Product: HP Pavilion 15.6 inch Gaming Laptop PC 15-ec2000 IDS Base Model
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11

I recently reinstalled windows on my laptop to help fix issues with it being slow. I realized that one of my personal files I placed in Program Files (x86) was deleted and it's been I'd say about a week or two since I last reinstalled windows. I tried using professional programs to try to recover the files, but it never worked. Is there a way to recover the file since I had around 85 Gigabytes worth of data inside it.

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‎07-11-2025 06:26 AM - edited ‎07-11-2025 11:53 AM

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Greetings @Acrobar 

 

Welcome to the HP Forum.

 

I would think your data recovery options are extremely limited or non-existent if you did not previously do a data backup to external storage media. 

 

The new Windows installation has probably over-written this data.

 

I don't know if a very expensive professional data recovery service could help in your situation.

 

Regards

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