Difficulty networking to Windoze computer

We are new to Apple and are trying to network to our existing Windows computers. One of them is running XP Home and it seems to connect to it just fine.
The other is W2k and it shows up in "MSHOME" in the network panel, but when I click on it, it brings up a screen saying: "Select the SMB/CFIS shared volume you want to connect to." There is a selection box to select what the target is plus choices of
Cancel
Authenticate
OK
There are two users on that computer and a second hard disk. The 2nd hdd is what I want to connect to.
If I select the second disk and click OK, it flashes a message:
The alias "2nd hdd" could not be opened, because the Alias could not be found. There are selections:
Delete Alias
Fix Alias
OK
I am unsure what it means by alias, but presumeably it is the name of the user or device. I certainly do not want to delete any of those, and either fix or OK ultimately resulted in the last pane opening into a screen showing various info, the only seemingly pertinent bit being one line:
Last opened: Fetching.....
which is has been doing for about 3 hours now and I assume in stuck in some sort of non-productive loop.
Any suggestions on how to reach the W2k computer? Many thanks.
Windows XP

Well, the problem is solved. It seems that the 2nd hdd is trashed. Don't know why, but assume that our Mac Mini's attempt to reach it did no harm.

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