Vista messed up Mac external HD

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Made the mistake of connecting my Mac's external to a Vista machine. Vista wasn't recognizing the drive, so I assigned it a drive letter. Vista still didn't recognize the drive, and that was that.
Reconnected the external to my Mac and it won't mount. It's visible in D/U but when I go to verify or repair I get the message BS_jmpboot block 000000.... Something along those lines. Ran diskutil/list in Terminal and I have a FAT16 partition now.

Read on BatCountry.com there's a Python script that could remedy my situation, but the downloadable file for the fix is no longer up.

My next option, which I think might work is:
A: Find a PC with XP Pro b/c it's the only MS O/S I know of that can import a foreign dynamic drive.
B: Run boot camp and install XP Pro on my Mac and try option A.

Anything that can avoid the pain in the ass that are options A/B would be awesome. If not, do those two options sound do-able? I've got my entire life's work in Logic data files on that drive and can't lose it.
 
It was originally formatted in HFS+. When I hooked up to a Vista PC, I didn't reformat it. Here's what I did in Vista (Home) when the drive wasn't recognized.

Control Panel > Admin Tools/Settings > Computer Management > Disk Management

It wasn't showing up in the top panel of the window. In the bottom panel it was listed as a Basic Disk, I converted it to a Dynamic Disk (which doesn't format). It still wasn't recognized, so I assigned it a Drive Letter. After that, Vista prompted me that in order for it to see the drive, I had to format it, which I did not. I removed the Drive Letter, and safely removed hardware.

Here's where I'm about to get creative.

XP Home & Vista Home, can't Import Foreign Dynamic Disks. XP Pro can.
Now, if I run boot camp and install XP Pro on my Mac, and if it is able to see the drive, would I be able to copy everything to the Mac partition?

After I move everything to Mac Partition, I'd like to boot to Mac, reformat the drive in HFS+ and then copy everything back to the external.

Does that sound like it would work?
 
I was worried when Disk Warrior was no help.
Data Rescue II, found it all and I'm now in the process of recovering all of my data.

Kick ass.
 
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