Possible corrupt file?

I've completed a digital painting several years ago. I backed up my work on a DVD several times throughout the years, but just recently, within the past 2 years or so, I've noticed that a particular painting of mine is corrupt - because upon opening the .PSD, it only displays a small portion of the image at the top, showing what seems to be a Red Channel only. While I don't consider this a pinnacle of achievements in terms of my work, it documents the progress I've made as an artist since its completion and it's upsetting that I may not be able to get it back. I was in the practice of creating a JPEG in addition to the PSD, but the JPEG version has undergone several changes that I am currently not happy with. Basically, the JPEG copy was just for testing out additional techniques to enhance the quality of the image...and many years later, taking a look back on those "changes" I'm extremely dissatisfied with them and want the original copy back. But, from what I've gathered, this seems impossible as the file appears to be corrupted. I am using CS5, just for clarification, and PS 7 was probably used to create the painting in the past.
I'll post a screen shot here just to back up what I'm claiming here.
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii48/DagonsEve/Nox.jpg
Any help would great be appreciated. I've inspected whether or not all of the channels were checked, and all 3 of them are, as it was saved in RGB format. I've been searching for a solution to this problem for years - I figured this would be a last ditch effort of mine since I am thumbing through my archives, re-organizing all of my work and configuring a new and improved method of saving the files (basically saving it as a PSD un-flattened, then flattened, then as a TIFF, then two JPEGs, one Hi-Res & Low-Res - just so this catastrophe doesn't happen to me again).

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