LinuxQuestions.org - Disk /dev/hdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Greetings!

I have a Linux Workstation running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-37.ELsmp). The system was working perfectly before until I moved it to a new place!!! Prior to the move, I had shut it down and it did so normally; I then moved it to a new location (I believe I took care not to be jerky while moving) and then plugged it in -- I initially got a "Fsck: Unexpected Inconsistency" error. I went through the recommended fsck routine and now I get the following error:

fsck.ext3: Attempt to read blcok from filesystem resulted in short read Could this bea zero-length partition?
while trying to open /dev/vg01/lv_data

[FAILED]...

I opened up the box to make sure the IDE cables to the HDDs are proper and then I rebooted the m/c. After checking a number of posts and doing various checks, these are what I found:

1. dmesg | less

...
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hda: ST380011A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive
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hda: 156250000 sectors (80000 MB) w/ 2048KiB Cache
CHS-9726/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 80293248 sectors (41110 MB) w/2048KiB Cache
CHS=4998/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: unknown partition table
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hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=33160,
sector=33160
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 33160
hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=33162
sector=33162
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 33162

Is there a way to recover my lost data? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Rajesh