Frozen, Blue Screen, reboot from disk, lost everything....help please...

I was experiencing alot of slowness, with frozen beach balls, yesterday got the solid blue screen, started up with installer disc and did the software and hard drive tests all said ok, then with my inexperience with imac I reinstalled the OS and lost all my files, I never got any invitation to back up.
Can I recover these somehow?
imac still slow and doesn't seem right at all....
Any help please?

thanks for your reply...
Finder cant find anything called ''previous system'', looked in Spotlight folder but didnt see anything or anything to look with there, never used it before, sorry.....
My damage limitation now is, can fotos be restored on a digi camera that I had only just transfered and deleted from it and can I sync my iphone bookmarks to my new user account?
thanks again
BB

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