Dear friend, not shure if i can help you, but still, here are some steps you could do and fix it by yourself.
First thing you need to do is try not to use the E: at all, every thing you save on the drive will destroy deleted data that you could recover.
Generally speaking you can see the hard drive has book shelf with an index.
When the computer needs a file (book) he goes to the index to know where it is , when you delete a file you just delete the index value, the info stays in the same place, however, when the computer needs that space he just writes over it erasing permanently the data (throw the old book away to put the new one).
When you recover using recuva or getdataback (i used the last one a couple of times with great success, you need to get de Fat32 or NTFS depending on your system) he checks all the data searching for clues on the files that are still intact. If you made some changes over the E: you probably destroyed the files permanently.
What i can suggest rigth now is to install getdataback (on a diferent partition) and run it to see if you can find the files, after that you can try winhex and search for raw data, he will show you ALL the data in the partition and ou have to find manually the files header (first couple of lines in each file has info on type of file, ex: Jpeg files usuallu use JIFF has a header).
Its not very easy to help you remotelly, you'll have to do the heavy work by yourself.
Any querys please msg me. Hope it helps.
Regards