What's the best work around?

I would say its been about 2 months that I noticed my Graphics directory with all my clip art disappeared that had all of my photographic and clip art in it. I took me about 2 months to create, What is my best option? I was hoping to use Recurva to find that directory and restore all my clipart Art express Corel Draw probably about 1 million images and stuff like that? Is that suitable to do with Recurva. And how do I begin. I have a 2 terrabyte HD which I partitioned into a C and D file and my C partition HD is about 50% full. Is it easier to try to recover the files or Faster to just bite it and reinstall all my disks.

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