Hello. I was wondering if anyone knew of a solution...
(C: Quantum 10 gig, D: West. Digital 30 gig / both ntfs and jumper settings on 'cable select' using cable select cable / mobo drivers updated)

A few days ago a condenser(I think) on my mobo blew up,
so I got a new mobo(Asrock K7 Upgrade-880). I wanted to
see if my hard drives were ok, so I just plugged it into
the new mobo without reinstalling Windows, and both
had no problems.

So I unplugged my D: hdd(pri slave), and formatted
and reinstalled Windows Xp sp1 with just my C hdd(pri master) plugged in.

Everything went ok, so I replugged in my D hdd, but the
problem is, I can't see it in Windows explorer.

In other words, the bios and windows device manager both
recognize it, but it doesn't appear in windows explorer,
and if I go into Device Management, it says that D: is a
'dynamic' disk, that it's unaccessable, and that 'status bar' doesn't
appear on the right side...

I also tried changing it to the secondary slave by connecting
it to the cd-rw(sec master), but it's still the same... And when I
run cmd in windows, D doesn't appear...

It seems that something went wrong during the reinstallation,
and that I have to convert it from a 'dynamic' to a 'basic' disk...
but that would mean that I would lose all my data...

So someone suggested that I use Knoppix to boot my computer,
access D:, and backup what I can...

But this is my first time using knoppix, so I was wondering,...
1) If I boot my comp with it, can I access D?
2) If I can, can I transfer files from it over to C, then reboot into
WinXp, and access the files?...

Any info would be appreciated... thanks in advance.