Einstein was right: In the midst of problems lies opportunities.

Guess what? 7: 48 am Dec. 25th 2005, I made a very funny error of deleting all the files in my documents folder, meaning that all my semester work + my invention folder are gone :(. Very funny indeed. It is going to cost me at least 2 weeks of trauma and 3 months of work to regurgitate the load in the folder, if I will ever have the time to recreate it. What am I going to do now? So I started brainstorming.
One day in INF 201 class, Prof. Kah said something about Computer forensic experts: people that can help restore/undelete deleted files. This gave me an insight of how I can recover those files. Immediately I got online and I started learning about the whole stuff to see if I can be one of those people and to see how it will help me get my files back.
What an opportunity it was for me to be aware of the functions of the forensic softwares. Interesting. Suppose I did not have the problem of file loss, I wouldn’t have had a motivation of thinking of the forensics.
I want to prove stubborn by creating more problems for myself so as to see if I will have the opportunity of finding out more. Can you guess what I did?
Seven hours later, I was very vexed and so I formatted my hard drive and re-installed a new Win XP. Now, can I get back my files and pictures? The most of these softwares go for prices that are too unaffordable ( like $299). I don’t even know anything about how to use the softwares.
Though I have this opportunity to do this. Now, all I want is just my document folder.
Can anyone help PLEASE. There are a lot of important documents lost now including my first semester project.