file recovery application.... even if the drives been formatted, it should still be able to find them.

not likely.  none but the most expensive data recovery software can get back data from reformatted drives.  it'd be much, much more expensive than to buy the item again or recreate the poser files based on the obj.

if the drive has not been formatted, then there is a chance, but file recovery has less and less success the more has been written to the relevant partition after the initial loss of the files -- this is something that needs to be done fast.  and if the files got lost in the first place because of a physical drive problem, there is nothing that will get them back.

ellocolobo, if you bought this item through a still existing site, you should be able to get your download reset.