Need to recover partition after mdadm -create

[alarmer]

Please, help me with my lost data.

I have sda1 and sdb8 partitions i want to use in raid1. They are ext3, identical size.
sda1 was ampty, sdb8 contained important data.
I did: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb8
Now those partitions are inaccessible from nautilus, gparted shows sdb8 empty.
recover doesn't find any inodes on sdb8.

How to save lost data at least a part of them?

[starscalling]

ouch..... thats not very forgiving..
http://aivipi.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-recover-ext3-partitions.html

[alarmer]

What makes me panic is not that the nautilus cannot access the partition, but that gparted shows it empty.

[geo909]

Unmount your drive and take at look at systemrescueCD. (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page)
Never used it but they say it very good for restoring data