dual boot partition help - did me recover my partition

 I was installing ubuntu along side vista.

I have 2 hard drives.

I used partition editor to make some room on my 2nd hard drive and I installed ubuntu. I created a 35Gb empty partition and a 4gb swap file partition. I also see the boot loader to boot off of the 2nd disk.

After I rebooted it went straight to vista. I see my 2nd drive but when I click on it is asks if I want to format it.
IN disk manager I see the drive is 0 bytes and it's full.
I have 145gb of data on that 280gb partition.

Now when I boot to the ubuntu cd and run GParted I see
/dev/sdb1 (triangle with an exclamation) ntfs 258gb. --- ---
/dev/sdb3 (keys) linux-swap 3.15 GB --- ---
/dev/sdb2 ext2 36.6 Gb 2.52GB used 33.85Gb unused.

When I click on information for /dev/sb1 (triangle with an exclamation).
It says "failed to startup volume: invalid argument. Failed to mount. The device '/dev/sdb1' doesn't have a valid NTFS. Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a partition. (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1) or the other way around?

ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0.)
failed to startup volume: invalid argument.
Error(22): opening /dev/sdb1 as NTFS failed: invalid argument.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a partition. (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1) or the other way around?

Unable to read the contents of this filesystem!

How do I recover my partition?