Recovery of photos after reformatting

Hi, I had to reformat and reinstall Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.8 after a hard drive problem. Unfortunately I have not backed up my photos and videos as I was using the mac rarely so I thought nothing can go wrong. Now I know better! I would like to know if there is any reliable software available to recover them.
Thank you.

If you saved the photos on Skydrive, they should be there. Otherwise, your photos cannot be retrieved.
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Basically, a couple weeks ago my iPod 4th gen died.
I went out to buy a new charger. This charger worked for a while, but then stopped.
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