FAT32 extended partition not recognized as an XP Drive - but can see in DOS

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I have a strange situation..

PC Info: AMD X2 4800+, 300gb Seagate SATA drive, 4 gb mem (2 sets dual channel), XP Media Edition.

HD partitioned 4 drives (C & D - Fat32, E & F - NTFS)

My PC froze last week and I had to press (Ugh!) the reset button. After it rebooted, it went into CHKDSK (which I expected), but it scanned my D Drive first, then went to C, and froze at 30%. After a while I finally reset it again and this time it scanned C: first and finished and then stated that it couldn't check D:, because D: was not an XP drive.

My system starts (very, very slowly) and runs (very very slowly), and my D: drive is listed, but not accessible (not a windows drive).

Now the weird (and Lucky) part....

I booted with a Win98se floppy and was able to get (using a great free long filename utility) my data off the D: drive, which DOS was able to display. I copied it to the C: drive for recovery off my network.


Now the Questions...

What can I do to get the D: drive to show back up in Windows and why can I see the data in DOS but not in windows? Has anyone else ever had something like this happen?

Thanks,
RJC
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