Did you try recovery software like Recuva and/or EaseUs? They may be able to recover your wallet.dat file.
He is confused,I doubt he know what he is doing.If you read the posts above,he thought he got the wallet file.
Try using btcrecover (can anyone link the topic?).
Be careful with that tool.Have users posting bad experiences in the past,if you miss out a step from the tutorial,you will lose the only chance you have to recover your bitcoins.I don't recommend using it.
ok file did not work... I am going to try and use the hex editor to find the private keys. My wallet is encrypted with a passphrase (password) hopefully this will not be a huge problem but I do know it. Basically I had a large transfer recently which mainly is the balance of the account. Am I looking for a public key which follows by a private key eventually? If I know the address of the transfer does that help? Do I need only one private key to recover the lost bitcoins? Any help is appreciated.
File did not work doesn't explain much,does it ? You need to know the basics of bitcoin,start from here :
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key