So here's the deal...

I have a lenovo ideapad y510 running Windows Vista that i just recently purchased. Last night my friends decides he wants to get on and mess around in photoshop so i give him my computer. Anyways... while trying to boot up the computer, rather than push the power button he pushed the novo button (used for system recovery) and follows the instructions to recover the system back to original state!!! However, by the time it gets to the status bar that shows how much is complete, he realizes what is going and he cancels it.

He tells me what has happened and when i try to boot up my computer it will not boot because it is missing the bootmgr file. So... i decide to pull out my old knoppix 3.6 CD and try to see what if any files are still there and hopefully back them up before reinstalling vista on my laptop and losing all files. However, normally when i run knoppix the Hard Discs will appear on the desktop as icons, but as of right now there is nothing there and i even plugged in my thumb drive. All that shows is Trash, CD-ROM, Floppy Disk (which i dont have), and KNOPPIX.

My laptop had very important data from work that i have not recently backed up and need it badly. PLEASE HELP.