The data I am worried about is on the my 2 x 200 GB Seagate drives that I had set up in RAID 1 on the same machine. The BIOS RAID diagonostic detects the two drives fine, but I can't get into Windows ...
I'm not sure about adaptec but my promise controller with raid 1 can be plugged into any PATA controller to get data off. I would just try that. If a regular PATA controller doesn't see the drive, ...
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