OK, serious Data Recovery question

Recently my SO sent a laptop into Toshiba and they reformatted the entire HDD w/o permission or notification.

So my question is, Does anyone know of any programs or devices that’ll recover the data? (obviously the FEDs have something, but I doubt they’ll let me borrow it)

P.S. It’s my SO’s computer and she didnt back it up and obviously she should’ve. So there, we’re all stupid/moronic/idiotic/jacka$$e$/retards/newbs/etc for not backing it up. Now that I’ve called her and I plenty of names for not backing up, maybe we can skip that part and find a solution. 🙂