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ok ill try to explain how this stuff works a little better for all you people who thinks formatting deletes the files.
(this is a simplified version)
the hard disk is like a book, with 2 sections, a table of contents, and the actual information. when you delete a file, or format, it removes the entry from the 'table of contents' so when you look for it, you cant find it, but the data is still in the book somewhere.
The only time that the data is actually removed is when another file is written over the same space on the hard drive, or an eraser program is used.
The recovery programs, like recover98 that i suggested, read the hard drive and see what files are on there, this usually takes many hours, depending on the hard drive size, because it cant just look at the table of contents, it has to read through each page of the book to see what it is.
i hope this has explained it a bit to some of you that dont understand how the hard drives work
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