Phew!

After spending more that 20 hours finding and restoring data, it looks like I have got most of my pictures back. What a total pain. Unfortunately I lost about 10 Kyoto pics. I also lost a bunch of emails and probably some other data that I haven't thought about *sigh* Serves me right for not doing a backup in a while. I should have backed up immediately after uploading my pictures. Lessons learned:
1. Never buy a Logitech drive - they are complete pieces of garbage
2. Back up your data more than once every couple of weeks

So everyone, go and backup all your files now. Trust me, it will save you hours of frustration in the future.