In ,
Slave to the machine ;-) me @dunno.net had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Can someone pls advise a software program to recover data from an
accidentally erased external HDD?

Data Recovery Tools:
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/sy...arecovery.html

I have personally used the top one listed (PC Inspector) and had it work
quite well.

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes