
I'm absolutely new to photorec and overall issues regarding hard drives. Anyways, long story short, my windows 7 appears to have been formatted to Ubuntu 14.04. I don't know which partitions are linux based now, since I heard using your computer can overwrite the data ( and since it's been formated I don't want more frustraions), so I haven't checked.

Now that I have hope in recovering most data using photorec, I want to know if I should just try getting files of my C drive only? This is the drive with all the personal files/documents and content in the downloads folder right? What about programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash? These programs are usually contained in folders, are they also in the c drive?
And something final to ask. My laptop is shared between 3 users, myself and my parents, can I retrieve chrome bookmarks by any chance using photorec? The file it would be under is Bookmarks.bak file which is in C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default. However, I haven't seen .bak files under the list of files photo rec can read. So is it impossible?

Please let me know the answers to these questions, as I'm quite confused as you can see, and I'd appreciate some thorough explanations. Anyways, thanks for your time and consideration.
