How to recover lost disc?

I don't know what happened. Explaining it general will make me depressed because I'm on my macbook on a COMPLETELY NEW SLATE without my existing files. Okay, well, I was asked to select language, username, password, etc as if it was new. I've had my macbook for over 1 year and a half.
Now, if a certain disc you've been using is gone and you're on a disc titled, "untitled" how do you access them?
I tried pressing on 'option' while turning on the laptop, but I only have 'recovery' and 'untitled'
AHH
please help me find it

Does anyone else have access to your computer? It sounds like someone erased the Macintosh HD partition, or Repartitioned the complete physical drive, and reinstalled OS X on it.
To my knowledge this does not just happen out of the blue. It take physical access to the computer to do that or it was connected to another Mac in Target Disk Mode and erased.

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Some days ago I lost all of my 15 GB folders and files that stored in my Macbook Pro hard drive called DATA. I brought my Macbook pro to an experienced computer tecnicians who providing data recovery services. To his and my suprise, after checking, scanning it a few hours, he said their is no way to recover because he did not find any trails at all. The computer still seems working properly - I have no problem with any applications. There are few other folders in the DATA hard disk containing pictures, computer programs still remain. These lost folders and files contain mainly documents (word, excel, power point, pdf etc) which I accumulated in my many years working !!!!. I did not make a back up since last September partly because I think Mac is very safe.
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First, did the data actually get deleted, or is it still there somewhere? Try searching the drive for some of the documents, perhaps it's all just in another folder on that drive.
If it's truly gone, it's impossible for us to say what might have happened to make it unrecoverable. Perhaps someone using the computer used Secure Empty Trash, or securely erased empty space on the hard drive. Perhaps it was overwritten by other stuff before you noticed. It's possible the hard drive is starting to fail, though this seems like an awfully specific problem for that to be the issue.
Or perhaps the tech you took the computer to didn't know what he was doing. Why not try recovering what you can on your own? See Recovering deleted files.
You should be aware that no computer is safe. All computers rely on hardware that may fail and software that can have bugs. You absolutely MUST maintain a good set of frequently-updated backups... no fewer than two full backups of anything you don't want to lose.
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Please help how to recover lost data...

I have MacBook Air 2013, running on Mavericks. Few days ago i was working on it, and while updating some apps my laptop did a kind of a slow down. I decided to restart it. After restarting it went totally like new one, asked me for mine Apple ID. I did put it and after that OS start running like a new one with no any memory on HDD or anywhere. I lost all kind of data on my laptop for the past one year.
I have no backup on time machine.
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http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/02/how-to-get-music-off-your-ipod/
http://playlistmag.com/help/2005/01/2waystreet/
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