Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

All I can say is....WHY!!?!?? Why the heck would you try to recover data the way you did? Why would you mess with partitioning of a drive that has data that isn't backed up? Why would you image to a partition rather than to a full separate disk or even just an image file?

First, where did I ...

OK, I'm trying to get a disk's data back, and hopefully also filenames and dir names, and need some help/advice. I'm a registered user of R-studio NTFS/Linux for almost 10 years now, but I'm hoping someone with (even more) experience can chime in on my options.
Here's what happened (I'll leave out ...