Laptop Harddrive wiped clean--bought recovery program, what to recover?

Long story short: its been been a stressful week. Finally reinstalled windows and the dell drivers from the CD. I am currently waiting for the rest of the application CD from dell in the mail. All the Dell drivers were installed. These are the only essentials needed for the laptop to run smoothly, correct?

I purchased the Easeus Data Recovery Wizard and was able to recover a lot of the old stuff from my original harddrive. However, I cant tell what is junk, things that are not worth copying to my new harddrive. Should I copy the Windows folder? Also, I am assuming things such as Microsoft Office programs will not work even if I transfer all of it to my new harddrive?

Also, is it possible to transfer all the old email messages from email clients such as Mozilla Thunderbird?

Thanks very much!

 

I only used free data recovery programs, not your paid one. However, how come you reinstalled windows when you had data you needed to recover?

Programs will need to be reinstalled from their disks and can not be recovered.

As for finding files you want to recover search for the file extensions in the program (if it has it). Say .mp3 for your music, .doc for your word documents etc.

Email messages, the way i have it set up is that my email is always on my email host (ie. gmail or yahoo) so even if you delete it in outlook (or thunderbird) it will still be available on the web.