Thanks to those that replied.  Actually, even by making my drive as a slave and trying to get to the files that way would make my PC freeze.  This would happen even in DOS or booting up from a startup disk.  I found out (painfully) that just because of those two crashes my boot record got hosed, my partition table was in shambles, some clusters near the end of the drive were scrambled, and my directory structure is whacked!  Gosh, that absolutely stinks!  I was able to get some files out but my PC would still freeze when I tried to access them.

So, as a last resort, I'm running Lost and Found on the drive as I'm typing this.  It's been scanning this 20GB drive since 10 PM last night.  It's coming up with a couple of bad clusters and 1 unreadable sector.  I'm afraid that my drive is hosed.  Well, I guess this is a good reason to finally buy that 60 GB IBM Deskstar I've always wanted...hehehe.