What is a good program (free if possible) to recover data from a hard drive that has been "quick" formatted? I am mostly interested in some jpg files.

are these pictures worth lots of money to you?

If so, I'd recommend nothing less than a professional service.

If you want to PM me, I could get you someone that can either help you, or make a referral.

This is a time when I wish I were in Oklahoma City. I would have been able to help right away.

a program that i have had sucess with is the norton disk recovery utility on the norton systemworks cd

worked fine when my surge protected upc didnt do its job and allowed a surge to kill my comp in the middle of a defrag session, killed the fat table. Generally i dont have to worry about it, whenever i need more storage i just get more money together and buy a new HD