Well whaddya know!
There I was, reading this thread and my practice partner walks in bitchin' and moaning that he's just accidentally formatted the card that he just took 100s of photos of his sis-in-law's wedding on.
So I download Zero Assumption Recovery and give it whirl....
Presto! 400 odd photos back from the dead - about 50 unreadable, but the rest all fine...
He thinks I'm the next thing to Jesus....
and all thanks to PPRuNe!