have formatted a second drive accidently and would like to recover my old napster stuff,anyone know anything about data recovery

Ontrack's 'Easy Recovery Pro' (http://www.ontrack.com) and PowerQuest's 'Lost and Found' (http://www.powerquest.com) are supposed to be able to recover files after doing a format.

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