Help, I got a 2nd hand lap top from my boss yesterday. Took it home last night and formatted the hard drive, then installed Centos and Linux over it. Got to work this morning to discover that my boss hadn't copied all his files over! I need to recover all his photos and important files. What do I do?

Get a new job.

Of course, posting in an appropriate forum might help, too.

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