Unplugged CF Card without ejecting - lost data! Any ideas for recovery?

I've done it a hundred times with no problem. Usually I eject media before unplugging, but this time I just yanked out the card (I'll call that Card-A). When I did, the icon ford card-A still sat on my desktop. I put in card-B, which contained about 60 images. I opened the flashdrive from the desktop (which still displayed the card-A info) and dragged the DCIM folder from inside to my desktop. I then ejected the flashcard and removed it from the reader.

When I looked in the DCIM folder that I copied to my desktop all of the RAW image files were there, but I could not open them as it said they were 'not valid images'. After searching for an answer on Adobe.com (figuring it was the Photoshop update I just applied that messed up the ability to ipen the CR2 file), I realized that the file-ID's were that from the original card-A.

Somehow, and even though card-B was inserted in the cardreader, I ended up with a DCIM folder full of files that were on card-A.

Card-B lists "no files" inside the DCIM folder.


Any suggestions on how I can, or if I can recover the files from card-B? I've had many photoshoots (I'm a photographer) and never lost images in this manner. This time I was shooting for my sister and her newborn baby's first time on the beach. To lose these photos would be devastating to my sister - especially since she asked me to do them for her.