hard drive failuer

[khaledes]

How can you recover hard drive data, I have a maxtor external turbo III drive will not connect to my PC.And if any one knows what is the fridgerator trick to recover the data.I am using Vista ultima.

[jimbo1763]

Looks like that external drive can actually be configured for RAID-did you do that?

Can you physically take the drive out of the enclosure?

[Midknyte]

Don't bother with the fridge. that doesn't work.

if you didn't set up the drive with RAID0, then you might be able to get the data by connecting it directly to a motherboard IDE. btw, removing the drive will probably void your warranty.

[khaledes]

The warranty is expiered, the drive came raid configured. I think if I take the drive out I will loose all the data since its a raid set up.

[Midknyte]

There the several possible causes: the raid array broke, one or both of the drives is bad, or the hd controller is bad.

external drives should be used for backup. this means a COPY of your data, not your only file. RAID0 is especially susceptible to data loss.