Help - I screwed up my secondary hard drive!!!

[Newbiephotographer]

I am desperate. I was helping a friend with her computer. She had a drive
that would not boot and she could not figure out how to get into BIOS.
Anyway, I removed my secondary hard drive, installed hers on my machine and
fixed her problem. I shut down Windows XP Pro and reinstalled my hard drive
BUT WINXP PRO WAS STILL SHUTTING DOWN when I reconnected my hard drive and
it appears that it has written some information from her hard drive onto
mine. I restarted my computer and my secondary hard drive appears to be
hers. My drive is a 160 Gb NTFS drive and Windows is still showing the
information for her 40 Gb Fat 32 drive. I purchased a recovery program and
saved 99% of the files from the drive, except for the most important file!
I keep all of my family photo's in a Jetico BestCrypt file so that no one
would have access if my computer was ever breached or stolen. I don't want
to lose that file. I believe that either the partition information or the
MBR (I think that it is a MBR not a FAT table for NTFS) is either corrupt or
damaged. Any help would be appreciated. (e-mail address removed)

 

[bxf]

The only helpful thing I can say is that I've seen some recovery
products pick up files that others had failed to pick up. I'd suggest
trying trial versions of a few different products - perhaps one will
work for you.