I accidentally formatted my hard drive; I need to somehow scan and retrieve
my outlook contacts, notes, calendar, and ECT... any hope for me?

Nope. Once you format a drive everything is gone. Sorry to hear that

"ara" wrote:

> I accidentally formatted my hard drive; I need to somehow scan and retrieve
> my outlook contacts, notes, calendar, and ECT... any hope for me?

ara wrote:

> I accidentally formatted my hard drive; I need to somehow scan and retrieve
> my outlook contacts, notes, calendar, and ECT... any hope for me?

Formatting does not remove data. Start Googling on "+format +data
+recovery" or other search strings for recovery software (some is free, like
Recuva).

ara wrote:

>I accidentally formatted my hard drive; I need to somehow scan and retrieve
>my outlook contacts, notes, calendar, and ECT... any hope for me?
>
>
Sure if you are prepared to pay a minimum of $1,600 for Data Retrieval
specialists <http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/> who spend all their
time doing such things.

You could try this software as you have nothing to lose:

<http://www.uneraser.com/quest12.htm>

Good luck and let us know if you managed to salvage anything.