I broke my windows 7 partition D:

Sikadren

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I'm getting an SSD, so I was trying to move all my files that I need to keep to another partition on my hard drive, then I was going to install windows 7 on my SSD and delete the windows partition (with all my files already on the other partition) off my HDD.
So, first I had to shrink my current windows partition. The windows 7 partition manager wasn't working for me so I put in my Xubuntu live CD to use GParted. I told it to shrink my windows partition(/dev/sda2 in the picture below) and move it to the left, and this happened -

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I can't do anything with the partition except delete or format it. When I try to load windows I get an error about the disk not existing, and the windows startup repair finds nothing. Is there anything I can do to recover my data?
 

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Edit: Yay, I got it! I used Active@ Partition Recovery

Now I'm going to create 4 partitions. I wish I had another hdd for backups, but I can't afford one.
1. backup of my SSD boot drive
2. important stuff I want backed up
3. unimportant stuff that I could live without or re-download
4. backup of number 2

I don't want to have to go through this again.
 
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Windows 7+UbuntuPhenom II x4 840 @3.5GhzOCZ DDR2 2x2GBASUS DCU GTX 460 768mb
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Windows 7+Ubuntu
CPU
Phenom II x4 840 @3.5Ghz
Motherboard
ECS GeForce 8200a AM2+
Memory
OCZ DDR2 2x2GB
Graphics Card(s)
ASUS DCU GTX 460 768mb
Screen Resolution
1280x1024
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64GB Kingston SSDNow V100
1TB WD Caviar Green
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hec Orion XPower 585 Watt
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