Hi all,

This is my 1st post here so please excuse anything I write that's
inappropriate.

I hope some one can help....

I'm running Windows XP Pro w/SP1 and moved a 300GB Hard Disk (as a
slave drive) full of vital personal data from one of my Raid connectors
on an Asus A7V133 (being used as just standard IDE for 4 more drives,
which I was already running 3 IDE disks on) and when I rebooted it
didn't show up even when the Raid/IDE was searching for the drives
during boot-up.

So I then swapped it back to the other Raid/IDE connector as a slave
the same as I'd tried to use it on the other Raid/IDE connector and it
then showed up again during the boot-up process but won't show up in
Windows XP Explorer etc.... so I checked in the Disk Manager section
and it shows it as being unallocated and only offers me the chance to
format it!

Please can somebody explain how I can get the 300GB NTFS partition to
show up again so that it shows up and is useable in Windows Explorer
again as I can't afford to lose any of this data, but also am very
finanicially strapped as a result of all the medication I have to take
for my CFS/Fibro Myalgia and me only being on a disability pension here
'down under' in Sydney, Australia. Also I'm housebound because of my
illness so it's very difficult for me to get out to a proper Data
Recovery Company.

I haven't written over anything on the disk so I know all the data is
still there, but how can I get Windows XP to recognise the partition
again and assign a drive letter to it?

Any ideas? Does anybody here know?