Help me recover my accidentally Xbox saved games!

Basically, not really. The XBox isn't intended to be a fully-functional computing platform, it's intended to be a sandbox for authorized applications. Even if you could recover the files perfectly, which is doubtful, getting them back where they're supposed to be in a way that the system is going to play nicely with (i.e. not ban you for) is, as far as I can tell, not something that anyone's put a lot of time into trying. Sorry, but this is just one of the drawbacks of using a closed system. There are a ton of advantages, don't get me wrong, and on balance I love my XBox, but this is one of the drawbacks.

If you can get the old drive and it hasn't been erased then you should be able to use the transfer kit. http://support.xbox.com/support/en/us/nxe/kb.aspx?ID=937279&lcid=1033&category=hardware

@phearlez That would work even if I moved the data off that old HD to the flash drive? Meaning, I left my old HD as empty as possible.

does anyone know if I simply recover/restore the files in their original directory structure, place them back on the flash drive, and pop it back into my 360 if it will recognize them and let me do what I need Read the first page of http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/xbox-360-storage-update-the-flash-factor-article?page=1 and see if it applies to your situation:We moved across a folder of files from one drive to another, and the data was completely ignored: the 360 simply treated the device as though it was completely empty. However, the files can be backed up on your PC, and then copied back onto the same flash drive.If I were you I'd try to copy all the deleted files in the flash disk to your PC HDD using Recuva/Restoration and then copy them back to the same flash disk and show it to your 360. However, before doing that, it's probably safer to create a bit-identical image of the flash disk (perhaps using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix) or something like that - I don't know if what I'm suggesting is even possible) just so that you can always return to the current state of affairs if your attempts prove unfruitful. Please note: I have no idea if what I'm proposing will work, so please do not attempt it unless you really can't find a more reassuring solution.

Also, I hope you haven't used your flash drive after deleting your profile from it, because that could mean you overwrote some of the files and thus rendered them unusable by your console. Still, it's worth a shot regardless.

@Bangaioh Thanks for the link. That's pretty much what I did: I copied all of the recovered files to my PC's HDD, and then put them back on to the same flash disk, and tried to see if the 360 would recognize it, and I think my problem really was that the files I recovered were really just those placeholder files that the article mentions are there just to take up the space allocated. So, in the end, I think I'm just toast. Oh well. Another game, another day.