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I've been thinking about how I only recovered 1/8 of my stuff. I guess that's about as good as I should have expected. While there were some 100,000 files to search through they had 3 categories of files to recover: Untouched, Partially Overwritten, and Unrecoverable. I just searched through the untouched ones which was probably only 1/4 of the files to search through. Things could be partially or fully overwritten through installing new software or defragmenting the hard drive. After installing the new OS and all my software I defragged the hard drive so that would have covered up a lot of stuff. There were probably a lot of partial overwritten files that would have been ok to recover, but I didn't bother. All that was left behind was wiped clean with Eraser.