URGENT :All data lost after restart

Hi all,
I did a restart after using win7 in bootcamp.
after the restart, all my personal user data are gone. my desktop got wipe out clean with only Macintosh HD drive and bootcamp on it. my dock, trackpad, wallpaper change to default setting.
i did a check on my applications and all the applications are still intact. however, when i open my safari, all the history is there, but there is no recent download item, all gone! There seems to be no users data in any of the applications. and although all my applications are still there, other folders located in desktop, roots, and other locations are gone.
My email, outlook email, documents and download are also gone. And i dont have any backup.
Can somebody help me? Can i recover all my data back?

Yes you can, but your going to need to stop using the computer before your deleted files are overwritten with new data.
There is a piece of software called DataRescue ($99) what it can do if installed on another Mac or bootable hard drive is to read the 1's and 0's of deleted data and recover everything to another blank hard drive.
Then all you have to do is pick through it and save what you want.
You need to learn either one or two things
1: How to install OS X onto a external drive and option key boot from it
2: Firewire Target Disk Mode from another Mac. (T boot the sick Mac)
I don't know what you want to do a this point but you need to stop using the computer that the files got overwritten on immediatly.
Bascially you can't be running OS X on the drive/partition your having problems with nor the Windows partition which has access to the OS X partition.
If you think you can't handle this, then hire the services of a local PC/Mac specialist trained in data recovery.

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