Hard Drive Troubles

Hi guys,
I'm having hard drive troubles.. here's my issue:
I have 2 IDE 120gig hard drives (master slave) one I have as storage, the other I have installed Windows. Now.. my third hard drive is a SATA Raptor.
My problem is the 2 IDE drives work fine, no problems. The Raptor I can't get into (which makes it difficult to get into my very important data!) it does not show up under my computer. It does, however, show up in the Computer Management >Status is healthy active.
I need help guys. I don't know what to do. I can't reformat because I need that data. Any help is appreciated.
The rest of my specs: amd 64 K8n Neo2 platinum edition, windows xp pro, 500wattpsu
Thanks .

Strange that the Raptor is marked active. That's only allowed on MBR disks (system or boot disks) - did the Raptor have an OS installation before? It's like trying to reassign the C drive letter - you can't do it as long as the partition is active.
When you right-click on the disk in disk management, do you get a "mark disk as active" option and if so can you deselect this so that it's no longer active? (If so and if you get warnings about possible data loss then best not do it unless you have a backup because I'm guessing here and haven't done this myself.)
If you can turn off the active partition marking then I expect you'll be free to change the drive letter.

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