I hope you get everything back! If you do, make sure to back it all up. Even if your H didn't wipe it, it was only a matter of time before your laptop cratered. It's not a question of "if" but "when". I have a hard drive hooked up to my router and duplicate everything between my laptop and the hard drive. These days a lot of people back up to the cloud, that's a good way of having a copy of everything "off site".
