I guess you could try a bootable cd distro like knoppix and see if you can run fsck (disk check) on the partition or read it from there... But it doesn't look good.
Obviously you know it know, but never let windows write to a linux drive, or lat linux write to a ntfs drive for that matter. Try to use fat32 drives to share data.
Now, do you have a /home partition as well as a / root? If so then the data should be okay and at worst you will need a reinstall of the linux binaries if you can't get hda8 back...
good luck.
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