Hello my dad just reformatted his Emachine POS with the restore cd, now he lost my moms business files is there a way to get them back from the harddrive some how?

Negative. Kiss it goodbye.

try googeling for undelete programs. They might help you.

Martin

he didnt really "reformat" i think the restore cd might store filessomeplace in the hd?

The drive was repartitioned and a new OS was loaded over anything that was there. If you just deleted the data, thats one thing, but in this case its destroyed...

Good idea to start backing up.