data recovery?

[Carnival Forces]

hey everybody,
i'm sure this question gets asked a lot but i couldn't find an answer in a cursory look through the stickies, if i overlooked it i apologize.

i have a friend who ended up writing two full length novels which her brother deleted. clearly she'd love to get them back. what software do you recommend, and is it possible to recover the files?

she doesn't think the disk's been formatted since the files were lost

thanks in advance

 

[Cyrilix]

I've tried using GetDataBack before, and it works pretty well if you have not made many writes to your drive after deleting the data, but if you have copied a bunch of files onto it after, you're likely in trouble.