Hard disk unallocated all of a sudden

Hey all, I seem to have run into yet another problem. 
I have arch running on my second HDD, and my first one holds Vista.  Originally Vista had both HDDs, one where it was installed on, and one where it had extra room to put data.  Now I resized the second one to put arch on it, giving it about 20 gigs of room.  Now, I like arch and wanted to add another 100 gigs so I could put programs on it that I needed for work (matlab and the like). 
This is where my first problem came up, I loaded up gparted and the locks were in front of both my windows ntfs as well as my linux partitions, so I couldn't resize anything that way.  I tried the gparted live CD, but that seemed to run into an error that it looped on start up.  So I put in my old Xubuntu CD and (thinking I was being creative) followed the install till I resized the partition.  I now had 100 gigs of free unallocated space.
So, now back in arch, I fired up gparted again and I still can't access my linux partition to resize it.  So I decided to partition the unallocated space.  This made it mount as /dev/sdb5, this, turns out, was not exactly what I wanted, so I wanted to move it back to unallocated space, but the lock sign had appeared.  So in my desktop I right click on its icon and click unmount volume.  BAM! I run gparted again and now it says the whole HDD is unallocated space.  Arch still boots up fine, I can still access the ntfs partitions (which it sees as it's resized 200 gigs), but when I looked at my fstab file, it seems to be missing the lines for my HDDs. 
Anyone have any ideas to fix this, and maybe also to add that 100 gigs to my ext3 partition?

I've learned my lesson, I swear   So what do I do now?  rewrite my fstab file from memory?  Or go back with my livecd and try and solve this from there?

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