This article File Recovery after Re-installing Windows explains what to expect from data recovery after Windows re-install, and how to do that using R-Studio.
It's uses R-Studio Emergency and you'll be using R-Studio, but the logic is the same and the program screens will be much similar.
R-Studio for Linux (not to be confused with our free R-Linux!) has almost the same features as R-Studio for Windows has. The difference is that the previewer in R-Studio for Linux supports less file formats. And there're both 32-bit and 64-bit versions for .deb and .rpm installers. R-Studio for...
Data Recovery Guide
A list of data recovery cases/solutions intended primarily for non-professionals, but with several articles that may be interesting even for skilled professionals.
Just a tip: To find a required folder in the "lost folders", just sort the files by their extensions, find a file that may belong to it, return to the real file structure, and you appear in the required folder.
I're thinking about this feature. But there are some file types (like text-based txt, html, sources, etc) that can be partially recovered even when some their sectors may be lost. What about them?
I'd rather call that "possible recoverability", because even if there's no bad sectors inside a file, and all other file's properties look OK, still there's no guarantee that the file can be recovered successfully.
Actually, deleting all partitions on the drive, creating a new one for the entire disk, and then full-formatiing it is more than enough to wipe the data.