Alsoft Disc warrior 3.0.2

A friend of mine went to the lengths of bagging Alsoft Disc Warrior 3.0.2 from a T-site to see if it could recognise the presence of my external hard drive.....it didn't do this.
I'm glad because if i'd forked out 60 quid for the actual Utility i'd be very very angry at this point...
Heres the link to my original thread :
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=397318&tstart=0
I'm still in trouble here... I've only had this Drive a week so i'm very upset as you can imagine.
Surely there must be something i can do... I've read other threads on here and it's disheartening that people have managed to rescue things but when i try the same tactics it doesn't work for me.
many thanks

Lase:
Download and run the (free) trial version of Data Rescue II to see if it can "see" the data on the drive. If it can, it's likely to be able to recover it if you purchase the full version, which will enable your ability to save what it sees from the scan.
Gary
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