iunformat and iundelete are easy to use, read-only file recoveryutilities to quickly and safely recoverdata that was deleted (undelete mode) or lost due to formatting (unformat mode) a ntfs drive.
irecover is a powerful, windows based, read-only data recoveryutility for fat, fat32, ntfs and ext2 file systems with raid 0 5 reconstruction capability. it also offers a (freeware) digital imagerecovery mode.