recover lost data from hard drive

well, here's my situation:

i had three audio files saved on my harddrive. these were original recording i wrote myself (one was a midi file, the other two were .wav files). my computer crashed, i reformatted my harddrive, and i reinstalled all software. i have been using my computer for several months.

my question is: are these files lost forever, or is there some way (other than having the surface of the harddrive scanned with an electron microscope) that i can recover these files?

thanks.

 

Now that you've re-formatted your hard drive, those files are gone. A data recovery service (very expensive!!) might be able to recover them, if the areas they were written to weren't overwritten when you re-installed your OS and software.

 

Well yes and no, if you have installed enough to over write them, probally gone, if not, $$$$$$$. ED

 

RobM, we had to post at the same time.lol. ed

 

Better two replies than none, tunered!