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Can't Recover Data from RAID1 Disks

I was using two western digital raptor drives in a Raid1 configuration on my old computer as the primary drive where the operating system was installed. I just removed those drives and they are part of my new system as backup drives. I need to get some information off of them, though, that I forgot to remove before dismantling the old computer. My problem is that Windows now sees these two drives, but only as unpartitioned, unnamed drives, and I am concerned that doing anything to name these drives or make them part of a new system might destroy the data I have on them.

Incidentally, I also plugged these drives into an external enclosure for SATA drives, and received an error on one of the drives when I tried to access it saying that it was corrupted. The other drive did not show up at all on the list of available drives.

How do I get the data off of these former RAID1 drives?

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Chris B

Really sure they are raid 1? Sounding a lot like raid 0. If getdataback can't see data, you will need to set up the old pc as it was.

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Gary Case

If simply installing them back into the original system in their RAID configuration isn't possible (or for some reason doesn't work), you can recover the data with RAID Reconstructor [http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm ]