I know, you guys are all probably laughing at my stupidity as you are reading this, but i was in the process of reformatting a hard drive for one of my friend's computers when i forgot to unhook the external hard drive that i backed up all of their data on, and mistook it for a local drive on the computer and deleted it as well. I did not format either of them cetching my self right after i deleted the partition. So i would like to know if there is some what that i can recover this data from either from the external HD, or the local disk. I have seen some utilities advertized, but i was wondering if i can do it with out spending a lot of $$? Hopefully i'll have learned my lesson, and would not need to use it again. I would appreciate any advice before i resume.....quit laughing!!!!