Recover files that were backed up before recovering to factory standard HP Envy 17

I thought my d drive wouldn't be touched by recovery->factory procedure, so I lost my d: drive with music, pictures and film, but it seems they were backed up by the program prior to the recovery to factory setting procedure. How do I recover those files? It's not clear to see where you do it in the recovery manager.
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Hey i have a question
i reformated the sofware in my laptop (windows 7) and i think i lost all my docs (pictures, vids,music, etc) and i dont know what to do to recover them.
Are they lost? or is there a way to recover them,...i see the "recover" icon thingy...
im not sure what to do since this happen last night
pls help
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:43:47 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Script to search and relink linked image files that were moved?
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