Finding photos after restoring windows 8 to Factory Settingd

where to find photos placed in hidden folder in  C  after restoring windows to factory settings

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It is my understanding the you did a recovery back to factory.  If you did a full factory recovery, it would have reformatted the drive, recreated the partitions and reinstalled the software back to factory.  That means all data on the hard drive would be gone.
You can do a Google search for data recovery.  You may be able to locate data recovery software that would allow you to retrieve your photos.
Good Luck!
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