ok after all that it didnt work...and i ended up formating the drive anyway..doh

i used knopix .. eventually but managed to work out that windows wasnt happy with system32 in a dynamic mount before i did.. reinstalled win2k3 on the 3rd drive and did the folder moving from that os .. booted to xp and... cannot find file something or other..

damn windows and damn myself and arse to knopix for no proper ntfs support..



and sorry to any i might have offened