DO NOT use the laptops! Until you get a professional eval of the sitch, the more you use the laptop, the more likely the pics with be overwritten....they may be recoverable!
The best in the data recovery business is Ontrack data recovery...call them, I have used them for major corporate data loss...they are not cheap, but the best in the business.
I'm so sorry he did that....
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
