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TestDisk has saved my ass before. It's great at recovering broken partitions. If it's just a quick format done with no encryption involved, you have a very high chance of having your stuff back. That's of course if you catch yourself after doing just the format.
Other than that, yeah, I've also had my moments. Back in high school not only did I not have money for an external drive - I didn't even have enough space on my primary one. One time a friend lent me an external drive to do a backup and do a clean reinstall - and I can't remember the details, but something happened such that the external drive got borked - and said friend had important stuff that was only on that hard drive. Ironically enough it wasn't even something taking much space - it was text documents that could've lived in an email attachment.