I am not sure what happend but I will explain the results of what has transpired I have two Hard disks on my PC with two CDROM devices,Hard disks are labled C:&F: I have a lot of the program files on Hard disk F:. Well for some unknown reason Windows GUI interface no longer recognizes HD F: as a formatted drive(ie FAT32),Windows does see the the drive but as unformatted with no lable issued. Now for the other part of the mystery. I am running WinXP but I booted my PC with a Win98SE disk to A:> and ran FDISK to see if that would HD in question. the answer to that question is yes it does as the lable I issued and as A FAT32 active partician which incodently is about 20Gig drive,how ever the drive letter is labled D: not F: the other thing I did was since the drive was being seen as D:> (cmd line) dir /w and all the files seem to be there at least the Root directories. I did run scandisk on the drive there was a problem with FAT so I allowed to repair while creating an undo disk. I did a windows Repair but unfortunately I did not have a restore point available so I could not perform that cmd. Does any one have a clue on how I can save my data or repair the dive so windows will see it as a proper drive? Thank you guys I hope I have given enough initial information to help in the process to solve this strange mystry

Repairing your drive is easy with the XP's disk managment, delete & create partition, then format again, but restoring your data is the tough part, can you access the fat32 drive letter from a win9x boot disk? if so, can you see the data with the dir command?, its possible to xcopy everything to your good drive (if enough free space), but keep in mind it will be dos 8.3 file names with ~'s, partition magic 7 might be able to repair that partition also, but I wouldnt rely 100% on it.