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Ok, while trying to fix this wrecked Windows install I deleted all partitions on the drive (yes, I am sane) as I wished to recreate them in a different logical order (boot, windows, data, gentoo) which was also their physical order (as currently their logical order was (windows, data, gentoo, boot) which doesn't work as boot needs to be under the 1024 cylinder boundary. Anyway, I recreated the partitions on the same sectors that they were on originally and the 2 linux drives were fine, but the 2 Windows partitions don't seem to be anything anymore. Linux wont mount them saying they are corrupted and need to be chkdsk'd (which I can't supprisingly) and recovery programs... well they don't seem to do anything (like the ones on the UBCD).

Any ideas? Anyone done anything like this before either? I'm not so much concerned about the Windows partition, only the DATA one (they are both NTFS). I'd have backed them up if I had an infinate amount of media to back them up onto.

They are currently unpartitioned space as I know that the data and everything else is technically there and all still intact, just not actually in a partition anymore.