I had a system running WinMe. MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU MB with built in IDE raid (Fastrack 100 Lite). Had a raid mirror (FAT32) 2x60gb WD drives, and a 80 gb WD drive on IDE O. 80 Gig was system disk, Raid was for multimedia. I wanted to upgrade because WinME was having "issues". I install WinXP Pro, (using the F6 for SCSI option) and reformatted the 80 gb and partitioned it into 2 drives (NTSF). Now my raid drives will not work. They show up in Disk Management and System Info and have all of the related info there (55.9 Gb, Healthy (Active)), but there is no drive letter assigned and I can't access them. I used updated XP drivers for Raid Ctrller. I am wondering if I can recover my data on the Raid somehow? Or incorporate old raid disks into new OS? Will converting drive to "Dynamic Disk" help me without destroying my data? Or should I Get drive recovery company to extract my files from "unusable" raid disks. I hate to lose 9000+ Mp3's. Please help.

Well, bad news if you formatted or partitioned the RAID drive -- you've probably lost everything. There is a chance that a DRC could get your stuff back, but when I last looked into that, they wanted $500 just to tell you if they could do anything, and most RAID recovery options run about $4000 to $10,000. I wouldn't upgrade to Dynamic disks, but you do have to write a signature and format them before use. Then they should show up with a drive letter. Kerry

If I understand you correctly, you only formatted the 80G HD and you left the the 2 HDD's(60Gigs) with the RAID array alone. If this is the case what you can do is to use the option in the XP to revert back to the previous OS - if you saved the the previous os during the XP installation. If not my suggestion is to re-install ME and you might get luckey. Siri