can you put either XP or Win 9x on another disk and try to access from there.
You can get a NTFS driver for Win9x from SysInternals.
did you create the Command Console, it is a XP DOS thing that lets you delete, move, create and not sure but run as well files on the XP NTFS disk. I am not sure how you can do this without XP Runnig already, but if you can get into XP with a DOS Disk and type the command line code to get it then do. The command line is written in the manual that comes with the disk. I cant remember what it is now. Can someone find out.
It is done by using a switch and typing cmdcons, but I cant remember which EXE file you apply the switch to.