Recovering files after diskpart/clean on windows 7/8 system than now has windows 7 installed?

xDissonance

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I had a computer that was a windows 7/8 dual boot system, believed to have backed up the files before doing a diskpart/clean Windows 7 only install. Well, after installing Windows 7 I realized there was a lot of files missing. Is there a way I can go back and recover those files? I'm looking at different programs like tesdisk and partition wizard but I'm just not sure how to go about this.
 
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If you only did a clean and did not do a clean all you have a chance of recovering some files using a file recovery program like RECUVA, although you probably overwrote at least some of the files with your new install.