managed to save my ass by using a program to read an ext3 partition in windows, copied the files to my windows drive, then transferred them to a shared folder at work... that'll do for now :/
This is for work and I'm completely screwed.
I have the exact same problem this guy does:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/247262-32-connect-raid-hard-drive-raid
Any ideas?