There is hope to recover Personal Files from your Hard Drive, USB Hard Drive, Memory Card or USB Memory Stick.
Your actions immediately after
data loss are important as well: if you do anything possible to prevent the storage from further
writing, the chances to get critical files back increase.
Storing your data in the "Cloud" is not a back up, unless the data you're uploading to the
"Cloud" is a duplicate and resides on different media in a separate location.