UNDELETE PLUS (FREE):
Undelete Plus is a free versatile program that will work with all the latest versions of Windows and can handle both FAT and NTFS file systems. It’s equally at home with removable media too so you can recover files from memory cards and flash drives. Tick the box to select a drive and click Start Scan to analyse the drive. This can take quite a while to complete on a large drive.
When it’s completed the scan the right-hand pane shows a list of the files available for recovery. You can sort these into file types by selecting from the pane on the left. Select a location to save the undeleted files at the bottom of the screen. You have the option of retaining the original folder structure if you’re recovering entire folders.
It can be downloaded from:http://www.undelete-plus.com/
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i am having a doubt about how the data is recovering from a formatted hard disk…can anyone let me know about this…..

Try to find some freeware.
Purchase some.
Borrow from a friend for one time use then uninstall afterwards.

a couple of years ago my hard drive got infected and i ran antivirus software and after it was done it said “to remove the malware infections u must restart for the changes to take affect”. I did and thats when it happend it went to the blue stop screen that alot of us have experienced and hate. Anyway i called best buy to see if they do any kind of recovery to get the data back and they said yes but at $150.
So i shelved it for a long time. But then recently i was looking online for some “do it yourself” recovery type programs that you can buy that says it will get the data loss back and repair your hd d and where u can run your own hd d diagnostics on it in one program. Has anybody used any kind of data recovery program before? and if so did u have any luck? and how does it work? thanks!
btw – i do have a p4, hp, xp, with 2 ide ribbons cables & 2 power cables conneted 2 the ribbons.

there is some software called ‘get data back’ but none too sure if its free, they may have a trial version.
Good luck

You can try data recovery software from MunSoft:http://www.munsoft.com
All programs use unique modern algorithms to recover files that other software either recovers incorrectly or is unable to detect.

Not sure this is the best but it will recover from errors by the device between the chair and the keyboard.
Reasonable price as well.http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

I bought the seagate go external hard drive and it has crashed on me twice. I do not want to reformat it. I’m just looking for a free data recovery program.