Data File Recovery

well, I have a large hard drive from which I need to make a recovery, it has been formatted..a while ago and I want to recover it’s files….I already tried "Get Data Back" and it didnt work, is there anything better than that?
I am asking specifically about the performance of "get data back" compared to other programs, I do not need clarification on the factors that favor recovering the files

Depends upon how long ago, and more importantly how much usage the computer has seen since then.

If the drive was formatted a month ago but never had anything written to it, and has been sitting unused in a closet since then- recovery programs have an excellent chance.

If the system has been used regularly since then and had programs installed and files saved, recovery chances go down the drain because areas of the hard disk containing those old files have now been overwritten with different data.

You might try Pandora Recovery or Final Recovery- those are pretty good but subject to the same restrictions mentioned above.

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