forgot win2000 password

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Hi, I have a computer with Seagate HD running on Win2000 system. I have 3
logic disk on the same harddrive, with C as the system drive and D and E to
store document files. Recently I decide to put on Admin password but later
on couldn't remember the password. The harddrive is formated as NTFS so I
can not get access to the SAM file from DOS. I also tried several 3rd party
software such as "ERD commander", "windows XP-2000-NT Key" and 5 other
things. The strange thing is that they can not see my hard drive at all.

I tried to use the original Windows 2000 CD to reinstall the operation
system, but it recognize the three harddrives as "unformatted".

Now my question is: if I format C drive and reinstall the Windows2000, will
I lose the data on the D and E drive? It is really important that I won't
lose the data on those two drive.

Thank you very much.