File recovery software never been free.............at least not the good ones, they say "you get what you pay for" so if you get a free version then don't expect it to do magic for you.
Here is a decent file recover software I have used before:
http://www.runtime.org/products.htm
Oldtimer, just because you delete or format your hard drive doesn't mean your data is all gone..........even if you remove the partition and recreate a new one and then format the drive....you still could recover some of the data....big brother leaves a back door for themselves in case they need to recover the data [wink wink]
Cheers
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