GetDataBack . There is a version for FAT and one for NTFS formatted drives. Use FAT if you think the drive was formatted FAT, and vice versa. You can download the program for free, run it, if it finds files, you can preview the file, then you can pay for it to extract the data. I've used it for several customers' harddrives that have died or been formatted. Worked great. About as good as any data recovery software packages. I've also heard good things about
R-Studio . Personally I have not tried R-Studio.
Also, do you hear the drive spin up? Do you hear any other strange noises like clicking? If the drive doesn't spin up or makes clicking sounds, then no software will recover the data on the drive. If you have money (usually $500 minimum) you can send the drive to data recovery experts who rip the drive apart, swap parts with known working drives, in the attempt to restore data off your drive.
Ontrack is pretty decent from what I hear.
