Attempted to reinstall OS X Tiger with archive Previous System Option

I tried to reinstall my OS with the ARCHIVE DATA option. The reinstall hung up in a loop after declaring that it did not have enough space to install. The only way to get it to unhang was to RESTART . This restarted the install process. It would not let me QUIT. It would not let me use the REINSTALL AND SAVE option. The only option that would work was the INSTALL AND ERASE function. Since this was the only way to get the computer back, I did the Install/erase function. Now all of my data that was supposed to have been saved under Previous System is gone. Is there ANY way to retrieve the data or did the install reformat the disk and wipe everything out?

Haven't heard of archive data option, but if you wet through that option, I suppose what the computer has done is formatted your hard drive, or at least made a fast delete. There is quite a few recovery applications out there to recover data from a formatted drive, so that shouldn't be an issue. The only issue is that it takes a lot of time to do.
Can't remember many name just now, but Stellar is supposed to be pretty good. When I recovered my hard drive I used Testdisk, which is a free open-source program, but is hard to use if you're not the "techy" guy.
Google on "recover data application mac" and Im sure you'll fine some applications!
Good luck
Cheers

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