sorry MsMittens but this thread had a lot to do with umm...the filesystems
btw nihil im not dual booting yet...**** thats what messed me up...i only need my files off the D disk
over the night i made disk 1 partition 2 ntfs and disk2 ntfs also and copied the files onto the disk 1 partition 2
after school im installing windows xp on partition 1 in disk 1 and hopefully it will show me the other partition because i cant acces my D disk. So if this works i should have a new disk on windows xp from disk 1 which will contain my files from D disk...so ten i could finally format the D drive and update its driver back to 80GB and i could then access it also.
thanks all