Unable to access data on hard drive

I'll try to give the short version of my problem:
You really may want to draw this out to see it.

Previously, I had 2 hard drives- drive one was C:, drive 2 partitioned
into D: and E:.Bought a new hard drive- it is the master on the
primary idea cable partitioned as the new C: drive and F: drive
(it chose F:) with the old D: and E: partitioned hard drive as the
slave. The old C: drive is now the D: drive on the secondary IDE
cable as the master,  with the cd-rom as the slave- both of those are
working fine. The problem is the old D: / E: drive that is now the
slave on the primary IDEA drive - I can't access the data!

Don't ask about backup - I have a backup - it's not working right
now as I am waiting for a new win 98 compatible board from Iomega
that has been back ordered - yes, that's wonderful!

Explorer shows the old D: / E: drive as E: only - and only shows one
file on it– command.com
the same from dos prompt BUT I think the data is still there and
possibly accessible as when I had given up and was going to reformat
it and went to use the EZ Drive program and chose it to reformat it the
EZDrive program showed the directory of the hard drive so I
abandoned the reformatting hoping to access the data somehow.

i have tried the hard drive in every position on my computer even
as the only hard drive (as master on the primary IDE controller
cable booting from A: drive) so I'm stumped as to how to get the
data back and don't want to wait a month for Iomega to get me the
new board (at least I hope it would only be a month as they refused
to give me a time frame)

now, how can I get this data back - there is 6 years worth of data-
not reinstallable programs- help!

Thanks for ANY advise or help!

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