My 'pooter has been giving me problems again. And this time, it screwed up a partition that contained 40 gigs of music. How am I feeling? Aaargghhh….

Update: I used a software called EasyRecovery™ Professional and recovered all my data. It was able to read all the files and directories from the dirty partition. When all other data recovery software failed, this one triumphed. The trick - it had an option of ignoring the disk's MFT when reading the data. A bad MFT was the very cause of the partition going bad, so this option really helped. I highly recommend this software!