I have 3 hard drives. My primary hard drive is a simple fat32 partition that I have win2k and WinME installed to. The other two hard drives make up a spanned dynamic partition. I have fdisked and formatted my primary hard drive so I could do a more customized install of Millennium. Now that I have both operating systems reinstalled (although I do have an image of my original Win2k install, just the Win2k directories compressed to RAR and burned to a disk), Win2k will not see the spanned partition anymore. It just sees two dynamic disks that disk manager reports as unreadable. I desperately need to recover that spanned partition as it contains everything I have. WinME Explorer sees the two drives now also whereas before they were completely invisible to WinME except for when using FDISK of course. Help? Please? Patrick

If you can get to the spanned volumes in hardware, I would use Norton's "Disk Editor" to look for the root directory. Once found, begin writing down cluster addresses where the files and directories you value are located and go extract your important stuff with the disk editor. The editor has a powerful search feature where you can enter a string and let the editor go find it. It also handles FAT32 partitions. If the FATs are intact, you should be able to extract whole files and directories to your other "logical" drive(s). Although there are likely a few good software tools out there that would somewhat automate this process, nothing beats just doing it all by hand. If nothing else, you'll learn about how your drives are setup. Persistence is key with this stuff. System commander is supposed to be able to restore partitions after an OS os installed and running. This would likely be a more straight forward way out of the problem.