[ale] Help. Sudden disappearance of Logical drives in Ext. Partition.

[Joe Story]

Hey all.  Anyone know if there is a way to 
recover from this.  Any info greatly appreciated.  This machine dual 
boots Win98 and Slackware 8.  I was in windows and I noticed that my  
D: drive (FAT32, Logical drive inside ext partition on IBM 75gig deskstar)Â  
was showing jibberish ie, dfa___dfae!!  (random chars.)  on the label 
and in the filenames.  Could not open any folders within that drive. The 
error message was something like "could not locate...."Â  Suddenly after 
that my machine locked up. Not surprising.  After rebooting, the EXT. 
partition still existed but no drives inside that were there.  I also 
noticed that dos's fdisk was only showing that drive as 8gig.
 
Can anyone tell me what might have happened or give 
me some possible ways to ?rebuild? the logical drive so that I can recover 
the data there.  I'm mostly curious as to what could have done this.  
If I can't recover I will just have to start over on the 15+gigs of mp3's I 
had on that drive.
 
 
Thanks
 
 
Joe-