Need help with Data Recovery

[johnet]

Okay, I'm an idiot!!! I need to recover data from a hard drive that's been formatted. I won't go into all of the sad details but here's the basic situation. I have 2 20GB drives. C: is NTFS with Windows XP installed. D: is FAT32, this I just use for data storage. It was formatted but no new data has been written to it. I heard about Lost and Found from Powerquest but it seems to be discontinued and I'm not sure it would work since I'd have to install it on XP. I could put the drive in my other computer which has Windows 98 if I had to, would rather not go that route. I certainly want to spend as little as possible on software. Any advice on the best way to proceed would be appreciated. Thanks

[rangeral]

Since you already formatted prospects aren't good at all see if these places can help http://www.runtime.org/ http://www.ontrack.com/

[NDD]

Hey, drop me an email and I'll mail you something that just might save your data (or at least most of it).
Be sure you're able to get 1MB+ attachments on your email provider, as the proggy is just a little bit more then 1MB.

P.S. And turn on the option to mail you from within the board, otherwise I could already send it to you.

Best Regards ...

[johnet]

Thanks for the help guys. ND, I sent you an e-mail with my address and I also turned on the e-mail thing (I think). I know there has to be some way to get this data back. I don't want to spend a fortune to send it to a data recovery place though. Still would like to hear from anyone who has used Lost and Found or similar software.