NTFS file recovery in Linux

[Roland0]

Hey peeps,

I am trying to recover a document (well a few) from a HDD that has been reformatted.
I remember watching a video not long ago that had a nice file recovery tool in it, based on linux. It could recover files after a format or delete. These files are not of a normal format so many "canned" applictaions fail to pick them up

Does anybody know what this is likely to be? If not doesn anybody here know of any free tools (in win or *nix) that will be good for this purpose?

Many Thanks.

 

[Roland0]

Photorec is great, it only seems to recover know file formats (i think it looks for the file header) But it doesnt seem to recognise .xlt files

Thanks for the help though.