Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo RAID0 Recoverable? 2

[Addammer]

I have a Maxtor OneTouch Turbo III it was striped RAID 0

2x500gb

My Computer will not recognize it at all now. All of the sudden. I have tried plugging it into 3 other computers all running XP and in non of the machines will it "recognize" anything has been plugged in. No "duh-ding". Blinking white light on the front of the Maxtor.

I have taken it apart as much as I can. I'm scared that I'm going to blow away the data. I do have a machine here that is configured for Serial ATA. Are there Do's and Don't's with something like this? I’ve got it stripped down to the point where I can see the two drives.

Are there some basic first steps in recovering this data??

Thanks!

 

[Frbutler]

just unplug one and try to power up
Since it is a mirror the system should see it as a hard failure and boot from the 2nd disk

 

[Addammer]

Why do you say it's a mirror? It's striped. Do I have my terminology screwed up?

 

[G0AOZ]

My (limited!) understanding of RAID 0 is that it's NOT a mirror - Data is spread out over the two (or more) drives. Loose a drive and you're stuffed. RAID 1 is a mirror, so loss of one drive ought to be tolerated.

Is the drive seen by the BIOS? If it is, then might be worth trying some data recovery software on it, although I have no experience of this type of configuration myself. Try attaching the drive to a working XP system, and then running something like GetDataBack. I've used this many times to pull data off a "partitionless" drive.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[Frbutler]

sorry read it wrong
had RAID 1 on the brain

 

[seolen]

Because I don't know what exactly happened to your external hard drive it is hard to be sure what is the best way to recover the data.
If the data are valuable I would recommend to send the drives to professional data recovery company.
If still you want to try by yourself - it is possible but there are some risks too.
First, what not to do is never write anything on the hard drives or let some software "initialize" the drives or clean it.
There should be RAID 0 (Striping) implemented inside Maxtor OneTouch Turbo III. You have to figure out which drive is the first and which is the second for the raid configuration and also have to know the stripe size (normally 16K-256K). Knowing this you can rebuild the raid with correct parameters with you computers' motherboard. You need your motherboard support raids.
This method will work if the hard drives work and the problem is in the
enclosure. If there is physical damage with one of the drives or with both drives it likely will not work and there is a change that you can
damage the drive more.

If you interested in professional service you can go to

http://www.vitaldata.ca

 

[djagoondee]

I have similar problem and I made some research and I can;'t find the stirp size of the maxtor ,but on the chip before you unplug it look closely at the pwr cord connector you should see HDD1 and HDD2 then mark 'em
I transfered the HDD's in my desktop in the same order and guessed strip size of 128k wich is the highest supported by my Silicon onboard RAID controller
the disks were configured as raid0 and seen under vista just fine but I cannot access the data cause vista want to initialize it
So far that's were I am ,If you find further solution plz post soon
thanks All

 

[djagoondee]

I am now recovering file It' s gona take few day cause it's 1tera
here is what you need to do at your own risk
if you have a pc that can take sata then transfer the maxtor drives on it config a Raid0 with strip size of 64k
under vista goto manage computer storage
locate the new disk ,initialize it with GPT (GUID partition table) type NOT MBR type, attribute a path letter to the disk
DOT NOT FORMAT . find a recovery software in my case am using "recovermyfiles 3.x"
start recover from the disk logical number not the path letter
NB: raid0 is conf in bios or controller bios ;make sure you have necessairy drivers


forgive my crapy English I hope that I've helped

 

[kjv1611]

You could always try to find a replacement external hard drive case of the same model on eBay or something. Then see if you can just strait connect the drives into the assmlbly, and see if it works.

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