the goods have just been sorted, the problem tony was that the drive was all in NTFS like bill said, that program he sent me was corrupt

and then he sent me a load of xp files, but one was missing ( cheers ryan) so ive just reloaded it all and now have my drive back - time to back the fookin lot up !!
is that the large disk support patch tony ?
ive now got two hdd's at 40gb each without a patch ??