Help with Tricky data situation

[tli]

The problem environment:
Old Fat 32 Drives (2) with important data on them (wedding photos!)
New Dell computer with RAID (250Gb drives)
Since i'm an old school techie i have no idea whats going on with the RAID and ATA Drive Devices.

I purchased an external HHD connection device which when connected loads properly... except Windows XP (Media Edition) doesn't assign a drive letter so i can't enter nor manipulate the drive in anyway.

Would love to figure out a way to connect this old FAT32 IDE drive to my ATA/NTFS computer so that I can access my files.

Your help and suggestions are much appreciated... I've been reading through the existing posts and can find nothing which meets this complexity.
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[Peddant]

Does the drive show up in Disk management ? Microsoft say this http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297694 Edit :I bet it doesn`t show up in Disk management either,does it.

 

[tli]

Peddant your correct

It does not show up in disk management.
any suggestions?

 

[Peddant]

Oh,are you asking me ? Sorry,I`m out of ideas.According to google,a lot of people have had similar problems,but no-one seems to get an answer.This is the closest any one got http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=148132 (see last post).If all else fails,you`ll just have to hook it up to a friends pc,either externally or internally.New Dells don`t do legacy very well.