Recovering data by the skin of my teeth
Something happened while I was poking and prodding around inside my computer last night. My boot drive’s boot sector and partition table got b0rked. I finally traced it down to the bloody removable drive bay I was trying to install, it must have been doing something to the IDE signaling which was totally screwing up the works. Once I figured that out I had to recalculate my partition table values from scratch. Luckily that was easy since I only have one partition.