Hi my name is Emmanuel or Manolis in Greek. I have an ide maxtor 80 gb (3 years old) primary in my pc with windows xp pro, a Sata2 wdc wd2500ks-00mjb0 (6 months old)which i use it only as back-up it is 250 gb and i have 200 gb stuff inside (video-movies-music-e.t.c.)and the new one which i am proud of wd 500 external-usb my book essential edition (not longer a week old). Now to my point, 2 weeks ago a virus came to my pc and messed it up and i couldn't transfer about 20 gb from my ide to the sata so i thought to take both hdd to my cousin and tranfer the data from the ide to sata BUT in my bios the setting was BASE for sata "device" and in my cousin pc was RAID for sata "device" and as a RESULT < this is a technisian's opinion well not opinion but i can't find the correct word > that this BASE-RAID changing from my pc to my cousin's pc block the fat32 or ntfs area (i don't remember what type of partision my sata was) has been destroyed-demolished or blocked as a result i cann't enter my hdd now the sata i MEAN. But when i go to (right click, my computer, properties, devices, management of devices it shows me the wdc wd2500ks-00mjb0 that is working good and it is ready for use !!! but when i go my computer (u know) with double left-click whre it shows ur devices cd-rom/hdd/folders it doesn't show me the sata hdd !!!  PLZ tell me what can i do i tried every recovery program and every COPY partitioning program in order to save my stuff coz it has 200 of valuable things inside and i can't lose it. PLZ contact me or Via e-mail [email protected]

Thnx for the understanding