How to use data from a raid 1 disk, on a new computer without raid?

[einer2060]

I have a big problem, i sold my PC but i have my two 320 WD disks wich were in RAID1, i didn't do nothing but screwed them out of the sold PC and now would like to use one disk and get that data with a external usb hard disk cage to my laptop.

But windows won't show it, in the manager it says something like foreign drive and initialize or something like that is not possible, gives an error.

How can i know come to my data that i have put on the disks in RAID1 in my old PC??? (old pc was a8nsli motherboard with premium bios on it).

Tnx in advance.

[JesseV1.0]

I'm no expert but heres what I would try: 1. set up a raid 1 with the disks or 2. set them up as jabod or 3. use knoppix, the one thats fully loaded with all kinds of drivers, its a bootable dvd linux distro.

[einer2060]

I have a laptop now, also my friend has an old computer and no sata conectors, so raid1 i can't do and i don't know if the data would stay?
JBOD and knoppix i hear the first time, don't find something useful on google about jbod. I have Ubuntu on a laptop drive i will try it there today, but i don't think ubuntu will see the disk.

But the RAID1 good thing is/should be, when one drive gets damaged you can use the data on drive two, that would be the best for me (bah my english).

Its strange that i can't use the disk :confused:.

[shade_star]

Best thing to do would be to create a backup of all your data then on the new machine move it over when appropriate