Creating a new partition on OSX has replaced a drive. Is there anyway to recover this?

This might be a little confusing so I will try and explain myself as best as I can.
I run OSX and Windows 7. OSX is on 1 harddrive whilst my windows 7 install is on an SSD. I had a partition titled G:Win7 Files, this was not where Windows 7 was installed but a partition I used to store files for use on windows. I recently made a new partition from the drive with OSX installed on for use with Windows. I did this on OSX and when I rebooted into Windows, my G:Win7 Files drive has now been replaced with G:Windows (which was the partition I'd just created from a different drive.)
Because they are seperate drives, I was really hoping there would be a way to find this lost drive. It's showing that 18gb is being used of the new partition however that's how much data was on my missing drive and the new one appears empty.
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to be asking about this but I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction on how to go about fixing this!
Thanks

Thanks. Ya that is a big bummer, I never knew to write down my recovery key... Maybe this should be more clearly explained in the preferences panel.

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