I recently had a computer crash and had to backup all my data to my second computer. I was planning on moving all my data back over to my re-done computer over the network. However, before I had time to do that, something hardware-wise went bad on my second computer... I think it is the power supply... I unplugged the drive I had done the backup to from that computer and tried putting it in its original computer to backup the data that way. However, the new drive does not show up in my computer. (I can get it in the BIOS and in Computer Management.) In Computer Management the disk is listed as a dynamic drive rather than a basic drive and the state is listed as foreign rather than on-line. On the old computer, this drive was set as a single disk on a RAID array. (It was not part of an array.) Could this be what is causing this? I am leaving on vacation early in the morning and my dad needs the data off this drive ASAP. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi, I just solved my own problem, but I wanted to post the answer here for the further education of everyone. The problem was not that it wasn't plugged into a RAID controller. The problem was that it was formatted as a Dynamic drive rather than using Basic partitions. Only Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000 Pro, and Windows server editions can read Dynamic drives. The Dynamic format allows the drive to use more RAID functions (including RAID 5) than Basic does. My main computer that this drive came from runs Windows XP Pro. I was putting it in a computer running Windows XP Home. Also, to all you out there with water-cooling systems: If you let your siblings or your roommate use your computer.... make sure they can't turn the computer on without turning the water cooler on first! That was my hardware problem. My younger brother was using my computer while I was at work and then was called away and so he didn't hear the computer beeping to tell him the CPU was overheating and as a result, when he came back the computer had automatically shut itself down. Apparently this weakened it enough so that when it was put under a load the next day it killed it. Hope this helps people out there!

Thanks very much for that very interesting info.