groan booted the comp up this morning wanted to acces drive e: .... windows xp reporting: "this disk is not formatted" gulp! same with drive f: needless to say, these two partitions contain 70% of my data (80GB) ... big disaster if that would be lost!!! imagine the horror strange thing is these 2 partitions are on 2 different drives after the initial panick attack i tried figuring out what it was tried one in the other comp and there it ran fine! that's when i suddenly remembered these 2 partitions are NTFS while all the other are FAT32 (which still run fine) somehow windows xp here lost the ability to read NTFS drives! the question is simple: anyone know how to fix this? thanks in advance!

Paragon make a programme called "NTFS for Win98" which works on XP. It will allow a FAT32 system to read NTFS partitions/drives. You could give it a try... I am sorry I can't provide a link but I'm sure Google will. Regards

actually i just fixed it! a friend of me suggested the ntfs.sys file could be corrupted/missing, re-installing the xp service pack would fix it and it did!

if you want to get shure.... reinstall windows 2000 (or xp...id don't have any experiences with it) on another computer... if your partition can't be read in ... then.... i don't know ... but then you would be gonna be SURE that the problem is your harddisk... if it is so, contact specialists about repairing your harddisk... if it's as important as you wrote down here... (don't apply any windows-tools for free or programs like that... they can destroy your losten data...) greetins pablo p.s.: i'm still learning english,....groan

gulp...i were too fast