As far as I can tell overwriting doesn't create a .recycled entry. SFSDoctor won't help you if the file was overwritten normally.

Your only chance is to locate the file contents on the physical disk. You likely have lost at least first blocksize (default 512 bytes) amount of the data though.

I'd use USB<->IDE device to connect the HDD to a linux box and use 'dd' to clone the disk to a file. Once done you at least have something safe to work with.

I'd likely use some hex edit tool with a search on the dumped image file. This of course assumes you know some unique strings or hex pattern inside the file you can search for. Note that this method is likely going to find multiple dupes of the same content, likely different revisions of the same work.

I wish there were an easier/better way to do it, but I can't think of any.

[ Edited by Piru 23.04.2012 - 21:42 ]