External hard drive wiped is it possible to recover?

I have done something really stupid. Whilst attempting to extend the partition for my boot camp with winclone, I inadvertently wiped my external hard drive by creating a partition the whole size of the external hard drive instead of 40g which would have backed up my windows, now I have lost all my data on the external hard drive, does anyone know a way of recovering the data - a free download preferably??
Went into the disk utility and renamed the original external hard drive, creating a new blank partition the whole size of my EHD.
Please help

Hey Moonra1 and Welcome to Apple Discussions,
I put in the "tiger" disc to run disc repair and it reported that the disc could not be fixed.
You you seem to be saying that disk utility can see the disk so...
The best thing to try is to use another Mac and put your iBook into target mode:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
You'll need another Mac and a FireWire cable. You can use Data Rescue II:
http://www.prosofteng.com/downloads/download.php?prodID=51
is the URL for the free demo. You can download 5 MB for free and you'll have to buy the full up version to download more. If you run the scan either quick or longer one and see the files you need you might be able to get by with the 5 MB demo for your tax files.
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