Beenn there done that. I think what happened with mine was that Win2k decided the drive was "new" and wrote it's "signature" on it thus killing the partition info. I was spanning volumes at the time too so when one drive went bust the whole volume did.

I got around 95% of my stuff back (mostly my MP3s) using a program called R-Studio NTFS here. Again not free but look hard enough and you will find it.

Or if you want you can PM me also....