Deleted/Missing Photos?

I intended to Copy all my 2012 photos from a hard drive to a Passport drive throught Lightroom 4. As the process began I realized they wrere being Moved by mistake so i Canceled the operation by clicking the "X".
Now all the 2012 photos are missing from both Lightroom and the hard drive!! YIKES!
I use an SSD drive for my operating system and the computers 1T hard drive for photo storage.
Suggestions??? THANKS!!

There were about 1900 raw files in monthly sub folders all in one "2012" folder on my "E" storage drive. While in LR, It was a farily short time before I canceled the "Move" of the entire "2012" folder from my 'E' drive to the Passport drive'N'. 50-100 files were moved to a "2012" folder on the 'N' drive. The previews are still in LR with "?" on my operating system "C" drive. The entire "2012" main folder with all it's monthly sub folders are gone from the 'E' drive. A search does not show the main "2012" folder or any sub folders or raw files anywhere on my system.
I am attempting a 'recovery' of the 'E' drive with "Recuva". The initial scan found nothing and the 'deep scan' is taking forever or is perhaps stalled at 30%, perhaps due to my system going to sleep before it could finish? Have changed the HD sleep settings form 20min to 90 min and may have to re-start it as the time to completion has increased 7 fold.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. ANY others much appreciated!

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