Sorry for not being to clear in my first post I was getting tired and mad.

Server started out as a Linux box 2 hdd one was for OS other was for Storage.

Later I got frustrated in setting up Samba and decided to just put Windows 2000 on it since all of my other computers are Windows based.

After reformatting the system drive I got the ext2IFS driver for windows to give me access to the storage drive which was still ext3 formatted.

I just purchased a 160 GB drive from a friend. Reformatted and partitioned it with a ~10GB partition for the system and a ~150GB partition for additional storage.

I then proceeded to copy one of the partitions on the original storage drive onto the new storage drive.

After doing that I deleted the partition that I had just copied and formated it to NTFS and copy everything back to it.

I was then going to start copying the other partition over and that's when I found out I couldn't access the other partition.

Now the first partition that was copied was the active partition on the drive. Windows did give me a warning that if I deleted it I may lose all the data on the partition. Which I assumed (incorrectly) meant the one I was deleting, which I was fine with.

The drives work fine when I try and access them from a Slax boot disc but it doesn't want to copy the stuff from the drive due to the non standard characters. I really don't want to have to manually sift through 12000 + music files looking for bad characters. If some one was good with shell scripting or could help me find a script in another language that will do a batch search and rename of all of my music that would find any nonstandard characters it would make it so I could just copy and be done.