thanks,guys! well,i have reinstalled win98 and then clean installed win2000. for some reason i cant find my winxp... i moved my stuff and i dont remember where i put them,even my drivers for my printer and other hardwares are missing! anyway,i was desperate because i needed to recover some data from it,so i decided to do what i said above. now i can read all the files from the winxp drive and i recovered them all. now im taking some time to see if i can find the cd for XP then perhaps i can repair it. well,crow,thanks for reminding me about win98 being on drive c:, but i think you have told m