Dear experts on hardware and simular strange topics ! This is my story : I had an AMD-PC with a 150 GB-disk and we were all very happy until one day the () PC stopped and a smell of smoke forced oss to place my sons beloved maskin in the garage, and the disaster was complete. Now, since I dont want my teenager to commit suicide and quit school, I purchased a new PC with an Intel-processor and an other brand of motherboard. Installing the PC with all its artifacts came out nice (except for the CD-player) ... but the old 150GB-disk dont want to show itself the way I want. The disks are Master (the new) and Slave (the old) on the same IDE-cable (brand new). At some time I managed to, via the installation-CD, do a chkdsk on the old. As you can see in the attached file I can view the disk in the XP-DiskManager but I cant do anything with it. It also have no Volume-label In the help I can read about the DiskPart-command, but I'm a bit scared to use it because the 150GB-disk contains somewhat 100 GB VERY IMPORTANT files and stuff. Best regards and thank you in advance ! Per-Martin Wretlind (Sweden)MSFN_OldDisk.zip