Quote Originally Posted by xiphias360
If your computer is in any type of environment where anyone who has access to it can not be trusted, the second thing you should always do is change your boot order, while the first would be setting a password on the bios

lol, true. Whenever I'm at work the first thing I do before I walk away from my computer is press WindowsKey+L to lock the workstation. I stopped using bios passwords long ago, but I see now that I'm going to have to go back to doing that. I made an image of the disk and right now I'm seeing how r-studio's recovery software works. I've recovered files before but never after a format. So of course I'm prepared to accept the outcome of everything being gone forever, but I still need to learn more about data recoveryu I guess.