There are several utilities you can try if you have the patience.You can get back most of the data (like word, excel etc) and images and sound files.
Power Data Recovery v2.1.0 | 2,98 Mb
Power Data Recovery One of the most powerful data recovery software. Power Data Recovery is a risk-free and READ ONLY data recovery utility that helps you in recovering your all important data lost after accidental format, virus problems, software malfunction, file/directory deletion, or even a sabotage! It is an easy to use data recovery utility that examines your inaccessible hard drives for damages and corruptions and recovers the data back.
R-studio Data Recovery Network Edition2.21FAT/NTFS, EXTREME DATA RECOVERY SOFTWARE!!!
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R-Studio utilities recover files
Deleted without Recycle Bin, or when Recycle Bin has been emptied;
Removed by virus attack or power failure;
After the partition with the files was reformatted, even for different file system;
When the partition structure on a hard disk was changed or damaged. In this case, R-Studio utilities can scan the hard disk trying to find previously existed partitions and recover files from found partitions.
From hard disk with bad sectors. R-Studio Data Recovery Software can first copy the entire disk or its part into an image file and then process such image file. This is especially useful when new bad sectors are constantly appearing on the hard disk, and remaining information must be immediately saved.
R-Studio Data Recovery Features
Standard "Windows Explorer" - style interface.
Host OS: Win9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server.
Data recovery over Network. Files can be recovered on network computers running Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003, Linux and UNIX.
Supported file systems: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32,NTFS, NTFS5 (created or updated by Win2000/XP/2003), Ext2FS (Linux).
Recognition and parsing Dynamic (Windows 2000/XP/2003), Basic and BSD (UNIX) partitions layout schema.
Damaged RAID recovery. If OS cannot recognize your RAID, you can create a virtual RAID from its components. Such virtual RAID can be processed like a real one.
Creates IMAGE FILES for an entire Hard Disk, Partition or its part. Such image files can be processed like regular disks.
Data recovery on damaged or deleted partitions, encrypted files (NTFS 5), alternative data streams (NTFS, NTFS 5).
Recovering data if:
FDISK or other disk utilities have been run;
VIRUS has invaded; FAT is damaged; MBR is destroyed.
Recognizes localized names.
Recovered files can be saved on any (including network) disks accessible by the host operating system.
File or disk content can be viewed and edited in the hexadecimal editor. The editor supports NTFS file attribute editing.
I am giving just the popular ones. There are lots of these software but once again patience pays.