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[jron291]

OK, here's the deal - my old standby computer was set up as a print server and data storage unit, two drives Raid/mirrored... the motherboard 'gave up the ghost', she ran on Win 2k (of course, the data is saved as such and stores two years worth) - I need to access and back up this data on a new external 1-TB drive that I have and then, 'after transfering data', I might reformat both drives for use as networking backup...

So! how can I safely load one of the drives into the DNS-323, access existing data WITHOUT reformatting?
... can I plug and play one of the existing drives without data loss and access it via the web prompt or will it read this drive on the DNS-323 through my new computer as a new drive?   

After reading all the *%*#$%@* messages regarding auto-rebuild and 'it formatted the wrong drive' and such... just want to be sure before I risk one of the drives... not sure data is accessible on both drives!!!

[fordem]

First - you can't.

Second - this is what backups are for - so that you can have access to data if/when the unit it is stord on fails.

Depending on whether you were using a hardware RAID1 solution or Windows mirroring, you may able to gain access to the data by connecting one of the drives to a system running Windows 2000 or later (XP, Vista & Win7 should all be able to see those partitions.