Hard drive issues

[A Black Falcon]

So as an update, last week I finally tried to do something with this drive again, after just leaving it alone for a while. Using that Linux livecd, I copied everything off of two of the partitions on the drive onto one of my other drives. It seems to be fine, hopefully. The last partition, though, which has ~90GBs of games on it, sadly can't be accessed even by Linux... and I can't manage to get anything in Windows to read it either. Argh. I really wanted to avoid having to just lose all that data... most of the games on the drive are things I barely played anyway, but some I got a good ways into and really don't want to have to start over if I want to play them again, including Dragon Age: Origins, X-Blades, and a few more.


... And on a related note, though Jade Empire was on one of the partitions that was accessible, the game seems to have broken in the several years since I played it last, and now it won't boot... or rather, trying to boot the game just displays a loading art screen which goes nowhere. Searching online I see other reports of the issue, but no suggested solution. I tried suggested solutions for other problems that game has now, but nothing fixes this... argh. What do I have to do, buy the Xbox version and start the game over from the beginning even thoguh I still have my PC version save files, just fo finish the game (I got fairly far into the PC version back in 2010, but didn't finish it).