cannot find hard drive in root shell

[rmonterr]

..... The bottom line is that I'm trying to get to the contents of my unpartitioned hard drive because my computer crashed.

What do you mean the contents of my unpartitioned hard drive???? If the hard drive is unpartitioned then it should have no contents. What do you really think is out there?

Hmm, okay, once again I'm probably using the wrong terminology.

I've got two 120 gig hard drives in RAID 0 array. I never actually used the partition utility in windows prior to saving anything on there. That's what I mean by "unpartitioned." I'm just trying to get the contents out (pictures, music, videos, passwords) but cannot mount the drive.

If the drive is unpartitioned it should be fairly easy, sadly it might be so badly damaged that it canot be saved...
hmm even if the hdd is one large piece it has a filesystem, you did format it right?
i need to know what you have tried in knoppix, what does fdisk -l (minor L not capital i or 1 (one)) in a consolewindow say?

I'll do this and let you know, thanks.