Files Recovery After System Restored to Factory Default?

Dear Friends,
        Last month I bought Lenovo X100e in Germany. Last night I got a virus attack that blocked every thing. I had to restore the system to factory default. Unfortunately I forgot that I haven't taken the backup of the pictures of my two weeks long Euro trip  :-(
Now I want to restore my Old Folders and Files. I didn't make any new partitions and was storing everything in drive C.
During restore I noticed that the system spent most of the time running some command like backing up C drive. But after everything was set, I couldn't find any back up information.
Does Thinkpad restore tool really stores back up information before overwriting the C drive? Can I get my files back with available tools? If not what is the best tool to recover my folders and files, preferably with original name and size.
I shall be grateful if you kindly guide me in this regard.

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