Skype chat History deleted !

Hi, somedays ago I resetup my windows. Now I am facing a problem that is I cannot find any chat history in my ID. Now I am totally stucked. Please save me. I need that data very badly. Help me please.

I found out how to recover the deleted messages (or at least see them). You need to look for DAT files inside C:\Users\<profilename>\AppData\Roaming\Skype\<skypename>\chatsync\
Just use a file search like FileLocator Lite (or Windows' own search) to look for most recently modified DAT files in this folder's subfolders. Open them in Notepad++ or Notepad2 (don't use crappy Windows Notepad) and search for some existing message you know comes just before or after the deleted messages (when searching for a known message, use only a small alphabetic part of it, including spaces, that is big enough to be unique but not too big to become obscure). From there you can easily work out what the deleted messages were.
Courtesy: http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/Recovering-removed-chat-messages/m-p/1029262/hi...
I tried opening this file as a DB in Database.NET but it kept asking for a password. I have no idea what the password is, but it probably also means it's not an SQLite DB. For now, we can only work with the file as a text file.

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