Partitioned Drive

It was time to abandon the G3 Mini Tower (beige) for a Cube that I recently purchased.
Needed to burn CD's of photos and transfer all docs to the new system. It was raining that day, and a sudden power failure cut off all power to the running MAC.
This is what happened next....
The machine powered back on and it went through the motions.
In the moments before the desktop icons appear, I got a warning "that a once-mounted drive failed to mount and that I should launch "Disk Utilities" to fix the problem." As the disk application opened, another warning told me that the application suddenly quit. At this point I noticed that only two of my hard-drive icons were on the desktop. One was missing. You could not choose any desktop icons as they would disappear and reappear if you pointed at them. Strange, I know.
I replaced the hard-drive about a year ago with a new Maxtor 160GB that I partioned and installed a clean version of OS9.2.2 and OSX 10.2.9. the partitions are 6.00GB and two 61.00GB's. My MAC only reads 128GB of the drive without a PCI drive accelerator card.
I'm currently at the point of booting from the install disc. The disk utility shows that the last partition is indeed unmounted and WILL NOT remount even after choosing it from the OPTIONS main menu. the name of the disk is still there, but it now appears in light grey format. Wouldn't you know-it, that all docs and pics are on this partition!
Now, if I choose the partition tab everything is the same except the unmounted portion, because the name is not in the volume scheme column.
At this point, I'm afraid I'm totally screwed. I can give the unmounted partition the same name and WILL NOT change the size of the GBs, but I will have to tell the system to save my up-dates by choosing the partition button.
WON'T THIS COMPLETELY INITIALIZE this section of the hard-dive and I will lose all information?
I'm hopeful that I can find another way around the problem so that I can access the files long enough to burn them or email them to a yahoo account for safe keeping.
FYI...while in the Disk utility window under the information tab, all partitioned sections give you the GB capacity and the amount of GBs that are left. the last unmounted section only gives the capacity and not the amount of space left. does this mean that it's alread blank and I've lost my docs?
Anyone out there who might know how to correct the problem, please give me a shout. I appreciate the time of anyone who reads my problem(s).
Dan
G3 Beige Mini tower (with G4 up-grade card)
10.2.8
[email protected]

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