Lost All Data after Restore

I was getting an error message when I tried to sync my iPhone, so I eventuall decided to do a restore. I figured after I had restored, it would be simple to go to a backup and have all my data back. Problem was that during the restore, my hard drive got full, and now I've lost all my data. It won't let me get to my back up.
Can anyone help get to the back up data?
-John

If there's no backup, there's no way to restore the data.

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