Hello, I just hope that someone can help me... When considering computer stability, win2K is better than winME....so I installed win2K. It has been installed on a 46Gb IBM Harddisk, which was partitioned in 3 drives. The c(main) drive was reformatted to NTFS in order to maintain security....Ok.... Now, Win2K didn't run succesfully, so i decided to return to WinME.... Had to delete the c drive with fdisk, and didn't change te other drives... When WINME was installed, the second drive, d, didn't contain any files (the third, e, had kept all files). I returned to fdisk, but this programm showed me that there was still 85% in use on the d.....but ms dos and winME doesn't show any files.... How can I reach the files ???? Is there a programm that recovers the "lost" files ??? If you can help, PLEASE let me know.... Many thanks in advance, Ralph Schijen.

Windows ME can NOT see NTFS.... You need to use Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 to see NTFS. Or else shell out a decent chunk of change for some software that can do it. If you need data off that drive area, just set the drive as a slave on another computer that is running one of the OSs above and drag the data off. If you don't need it, just use FDISK and delete the partition (option 3, then option 4)....

when you are running win2k on a partition other than the first one, and then you format the first one, you lose all the system startup files like ntldr, boot.ini, ntdetect and so on. i think you should install win2k to the C drive then you can access whatever ntfs files you have on the other drives. then if you want to format C again you can do so but this time backup every hidden file in the C root directory(after installing win2k there). Back them up on another partition and then you can format C and then move them back to C. After that you can do whatever you want with the C drive and still access your previous win2k installation(but if you decide you want to put something besides Win2k on C, make sure you format it to FAT32).