Glary Undelete is a free application which makes it easy to recover deleted files. (Assuming they've not already been overwritten, of course.)

The interface is very simple. Choose the drive containing the missing files, click Search, and the program scans your disk - FAT, NTFS, even encrypted NTFS - for any remnants.

There could be a lot of possible files for examination, but fortunately you can browse to them by folder or file type, or filter the results by any combination of name, date range, size or file state (Overwritten, Poor, Medium, Good, Very Good).

The program also has an optional preview window, which we hoped would give us a preview of common file types to ensure we're recovering the right data. But for some reason it only displayed "no preview available", whatever we did.

If you can find what you want, though, recovery is simple enough. Use checkboxes to select your lost files, click Restore, and they'll be recovered to your preferred destination.