Maxtor hard drive recovery

[jbandy1]

Hi, I have a Maxtor One Touch Three 1.5TB drive formatted NTFS, RAID 0, that just stopped working. I noticed from opening the enclosure that the drive is made of 2 separate Seagate Barracuda 750GB drives. I tried unplugging both of the drives one at a time inside the enclosure and found that one of them is making a clicking sound while initializing. The other drives seems to spin up just fine. While I speculate that I will have to send the clicking drive to a professional, I don't see why I wouldn't be able to get data off the "working" drive. Tried using a BlacX docking station with "working" drive on a windows 7 machine but the computer asks me to format my drive. So I did not format it. In Disk management I have the option of converting to a dynamic disk but wasn't sure if that would allow me to access the data or not. So I did not convert the disk to a dynamic disk. Tried the same process on a XP machine and it asked me to initialize the disk. Once again I stopped, not sure if initializing would allow me to access the data. Should I convert to dynamic disk or initialize? will either help?

[pcimage]

You need the contents of both drives, as the data is spliced across the drives in tiny alternate chunks (or "stripes").

Do not initialise or do anything with the "good" drive, you'll get no useful data off it on its own.

[jbandy1]

Thanks. I was afraid of that. Is there anyway to open one drive if the other is not working?

[pcimage]

Thanks. I was afraid of that. Is there anyway to open one drive if the other is not working?

What do you mean "open one drive"?

Its only "half a drive"!

Imagine trying to read a 500-page novel with every other word missing, not really much use.

[DataPlanet]

if you want data the clicking drive must be repair there is no other way to recover data without this clicking drive on RAID 0 in most cases the clicking drive must have to changes heads.. for me the cost will be minimum $1500 for this case to be completed have a contact if you are interested. skype: ontrack86

[hhddrec]

If your data is important, you need 2 drives working fine. because if not you only have 1 word from 2 writen words on the drive, as report here PCImage.

Contact with a pro. sure here you will be budgets.