lost all files on my external hard drive partition. need help!

about 2 days back I changed the partition of my drive external hard parition of os x type to exFAT to use it on all my devices. I had no idea that changing the type of partition will also delete all of the files it contains. I lost about 1 terabyte of media (movies, tv shows, music... etc...).

I used a mac app store app is worth ₹ 1350 ($20) called Seanate data recovery. the application does not work and crashes. It is never done the analysis completely and crashes just before. apple requested a refund request.

as I learned that all the good data recovery software are paid apps, I'm ready to make a good purchase an application of trust among Mac users.

can someone please tell me a good software/app either from macappstore or otherwise, which i expect to do the job?

Thank you.

Pascal

Data recovery 4 can be the best.

Good luck.

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