Wrong forum yes, but a request to help him find an addy that has a free recovery program? Not necessarily. Only if the software is warez that he's looking for. I've gotten many free programs from people that just offer their software at no charge. It's called freeware.
jagnorm, I'm going to move this to another forum, I hope you find the link. I could use it!

My old hard drive failed and I need to recover the data from it.