Any hope for a restore?

OK, please be very gentle with me here. I am literally having the worst day of my life. I came home and found that my (evicted) roommate had hacked into my computer - in an attempt to steal it and reinstalled the OS software to a fresh new user. He was caught by the neighbor trying to take it out of the apartment, but in the meantime, my information is all gone now. 15 years of graphic design work. And I'm looking for a job now and need to show past projects. I know what you're saying ... should have had a backup. I DID have a Lacie backup drive, but he got away with that. I am beyond distraught. I guess for extra fun he also closed all of my online accounts that had the passwords saved in Firefox. Again, will not do that again.
So I'm wondering - and I imagine what the answer will be - but is there anyway that old data is underneath this new install and hasn't been overwritten yet? I don't know what i'm going to do ... I'm so distraught I thought I would at least ask. Thx

tbecks wrote:
This is my model: http://support.apple.com/kb/SP507
I have the 24" one. I don't know how to answer your other questions ... I'm not wildly tech savvy. It says I have roughly 580G available now and I know before I probably had around 300G I was using.
Then you've got either a 640 GB or 1 TB drive. I'd guess 640.
That means there's probably enough space at the "end" of the drive to install OSX and a few utilities, such as a +Data Recovery+ app, if you want to.
the OS install disc was lying on the desk and now the computer looks like a brand new screen with no extra folders, etc. I don't even have to enter a password to log on.
Good. That's a start.
The longer you use that drive, the more things will be overwritten and +*not recoverable*+. And yes, that includes using Safari (it keeps your browsing history, icons, and various other things); and your Mac is busily making log files, caches, etc., any or all of which may be writing over your data +*right now.+* I did mean +*Stop using the drive IMMEDIATELY.+*
So you have two choices:
Power it down until you can find a service, or another Mac running Leopard or Snow Leopard you can use with a +Data Recovery+ app.
Make a second partition on your internal HD, install OSX on it, and run from that, instead of the normal one. You can install a +Data Recovery+ app on that partition and, hopefully, recover some data.
If you're up for it, start your Mac up from the Install disc, per the yellow box in #1 of [Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/DU.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Using Snow Leopard+ forum). Do +*nothing else+* in that section.
Go to #3 there and follow the instructions to "split" your existing partition (almost certainly named "Macintosh HD") and make a second one of about 100GB. Name it "Emergency" or something distinctive. If it won't make one of 100 GB, try smaller sizes.
Then quit Disk Utility, return to the Installer, and install OSX on the new partition. When your Mac boots up again, it will be running from that partition, and you'll see the Welcome video again. Set up a user account, etc. You won't be using the other partition at all.
I don't have access to an external drive as he managed to get that out in his bag without the neighbor realizing, but I can get one soon. So I shouldn't be using the internet or anything? I'm not using any apps other than Safari. In fact, whatever he did wiped out all of my apps. I'll have to reinstall all of my Adobe, etc.
You'll have to do that anyway. You won't be able to recover complex apps (that came with their own installers), and may or may not be able to recover simple ones (that you just put into your Applications folder.)
But you may be able to recover data your data. You won't know that for a while, unfortunately.
Hang in there.

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