Hi.

Did you have that 8MB partition at the end of the first drive before you booted the 98 CD? It seems likely that setup fiddled with your partition table during the pre-install tests, and win2k is now confused because it has a drive D: on the first drive, when it expects it to refer to the second one. Microsoft installers are buggers for mucking about with partition tables, riding roughshod over anything they don't recognise, and of course a 98 installer wouldn't recognise a Win2k boot partition directly although one would thing it would see it as NT at least.

Anyway, there is a program called "GetDataBack for NTFS", from www.runtime.org, which may help. I've used it in the past to recover from a similar problem, when win2k unilaterally ate a very important drive completely. The program recovered everything, although it took a while.

I'm not sure whether there is a free download, and the software costs about $130 or so, but if you're absolutely desperate PM me.

pca