Windows 7: Any way to recover my photos?

is there a way i can take my hard drive somewhere to have an undelete done on it? like they do with camera sd cards? i lost everything as well but it's my photos i'm most worried about.

Download and try recuva. It has done miracles for others.
http://www.filehippo.com/download_recuva/

You can also try to restore from backup and restore. It is part of the OS.
Finally, although drastic, a system image will do the trick.

alright thank you thank you thank you. i'm actually in china so the download was a bit difficult b/c of the firewall but i was able to do it through a proxy. - i've run the deepscan but 7,000 thousand files are being ignored- how do i unignore? also, the only pictures i'm recovering are ones i deleted myself back when i was using vista. normal?

If having problems with recuva, try backup and restore. It part of your OS. The pics should be there.

figured out recuva and got EVERYTHING back. thank you so so much!

I am really glad that I could help. Thanks, too, for the rep.