Restore hard drive?

Hey guys,
I'm new here. Just bought myself a new 24" imac, which im loving to pieces. I have an external USB drive with all my media content that was formated under NTFS on a windows machine. I was messing about with macforge and ntfs-3g trying to make it writable under leopard but no success.. then accidently (somehow) i formatted the drive!
I didn't mean to format it! as it had so much media content (500gb worth). So my question is does leopard have any inbuilt functions that will allow me to do this.. if not does any one know of any free software for macosx that will allow me to restore the drive or recover my data.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.

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