Corrupted Git Branch after suspected hard disk issue-Collection of common programming errors

So I was having a problem with my hard disk (I think). Everytime I ran git log commands (when running Windows through VMWare Fusion for Mac) it would throw a fatal error causing VMWare to crash (something about unable to reach disk drive). Even if I booted to Boot Camp natively and tried running git log, I got some error about less.exe failing.

I couldn’t copy/delete any files in the git/bin folder without problems (VMWare crashing). So I tried to just install the latest git (1.6.7 from 1.6.4). After doing this, I could successfully run git log commands again and everything seemed to be working.

Before the original crash had occurred, I had a branch I was working on that has a lot of changes. Now when I try to checkout that branch, I get the following error:

error: unable to unpack d7a66a887fbe9b5f2baec0580da1fb4c1f39851e header error: inflateEnd: failed fatal: loose object d7a66a887fbe9b5f2baec0580da1fb4c1f39851e (stored in .git/objects/d7/a66a887fbe9b5f2baec0580da1fb4c1f39851e) is corrupt.

I get similiar error if I do git cat-file -t d7a66a887fbe9b5f2baec0580da1fb4c1f39851e. I saw this on another post. My branch had not been pushed to the network repository yet as I was only working on it locally. Any chance of recovering/fixing this branch? I’m desperate to not lose this code 🙁