Help! Lost my whole drive after chkdsk!

Ok, thanks for the help guys. I guess this windows 7 drive is not totally recoverable.

It's not as bad as it sounds. It's not my main drive (which is linux) nor my second drive (which is win10) and I kept a redundant backup of all important files from the win7 drive on my windows 10 drive and I have a backup image (eh it's a couple years old) of the windows 7 drive itself on an external esata drive. So most everything is not lost.

I did download and run Recova tool on the drive and (after 5 1/2 hours) the deep scan found 1,700,000 files. No directory structure but plenty of individual files so if there were some pictures of something I needed, it's probably there.

Yes, they have filenames, just not directory paths.

Not yet, still considering what to do or it there are other recovery tools that might be better than Recova. Anyone know of any?

Btw, @jumanji wasn't entirely correct on his assumption on what happened. The Win7 disk *wasn't* inaccessible, I could read from it fine and access all the folders/files. But it started reporting the disk was full and even deleting some files didn't change that. So I figured a chkdsk run would fix it up. I didn't have any reason to think it would delete all the files :). Lesson learned.