Is there a way to recover an overwritten image folder in a site root?

I mistakenly did a 'get' of the 'images' folder in my remote site and it overwrote my local site file, which contained many new photoshopped jpgs that I had spent hours creating and had recently placed there for the site work.
I am working in CS5 on a Windows 7 desktop PC.
The overwritten images folder I want to recover was stored on my 'z' drive (public drive), which I use for all my work so that I can also access it via my laptop (networked) if working in another area of the house.
Is there any magic recovery for this overwritten file folder or should I just start the many hours of work over again?
To add to the stress, the site must go live in a few days to please my customer.
URGENT & FRANTIC,
Sally

Hello Sally,
in this case and under the condition that you have already unsuccessful scanned/searched all positions of your hard drive with a file-manager, there is still that possibility which you should do as quickly as possible, without any other file operations. I didn't see your thread earlier, hope it's not too late, yet!
If you're lucky, some of your file are still intact on your hard disk and you get your file back with an "unerase tool", like Norton-Utilities. You could try Google search too. A (German) tool finds here: http://www.chip.de/downloads/O-amp-O-UnErase_13014611.html.
Before a file is deleted completely, the operating system removes only the first letter of the file's name. PHYSICALLY the file is still situated on your hard disk(s). The unerase tools can detect it and it draws up a list which will give you a detailed record of these files which can be recovered. Here a screenshot of my German "Unerase Tool":
"Wiederherstellen" means something like "recover".
Good luck!
Hans-Günter

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