Depends on if the restore program formatted the drive. If it did, odds are the act of installing the OS again means some of those files, maybe even all of them, are gone. Short of some very expensive recovery services, gone forever.
If it didn't format the drive, just installed a fresh copy of the OS over top your existing one, the files should still be there if you go looking.
Either way, this should be taken as an important lesson on the value of backups.
So my internet wasn't working and i thought i was doing system restore where it says,"restore your pc to an earlier date" but i did factory restore instead. Does anybody know any way I can get my files back? any partition programs that are effective. I am mostly worried about my photos because I didn't burn them on disks.

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