Lindows Jinx please Help

[CC034]

Hi,

I had two Os (win 98 and WinXP) running before i isntalled lindows.. i had two 40 Gig HDD and i had 5 partitions in the first one and in the second i had two, i INstalled Lindows in one if the partitions in my 1st HDD, after some time i had another Hdd fixed from a friend who wanted to backup them.. so i fixed the HDD and then started to login to Win 98.. it gave me some protection error, so i then decided to go into lindows, lindows showed my newest drive as Dos, anyway i backed up all the data in the drive to my a partition in my Second HDD and then now when i have removed the HDD and i logged back to windows XP and first thing i notice was that my second HDD dddint show any partitions.. and when i click it.. windows asks me to format it!!!! .in windows 98 i am not shown the drive..so thaty is the story.. the files in that HDD is really important, and please someone give me a sulotion of how to retreive the files or make it to astate which it was b4..

thank you

[TMAN]

I am very very confused. What was on what partition on each drive before and after the incident?