It started when running the Driver Updater on the Avast ultimate package. One of the updates caused the screen to flicker so in an attempt to restore to last update it actually reset the laptop to factory settings wiping all my documents.
On trying to power the laptop to see if I could recover the documents it wouldn't load and said that the hard drive had failed. I have removed the hard drive and tried connecting it to another laptop with a USB connector but don't know where to look for the documents. I know it is a bit of a long shot but do I have any hope of recovering any files? Is there a way I can do this manually? Many thanks.
On trying to power the laptop to see if I could recover the documents it wouldn't load and said that the hard drive had failed. I have removed the hard drive and tried connecting it to another laptop with a USB connector but don't know where to look for the documents. I know it is a bit of a long shot but do I have any hope of recovering any files? Is there a way I can do this manually? Many thanks.