Drive not accessable, now shows RAW??

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I need some help with my Hd, thinking this problem not new..

problem:
I noticed the other day that my hard drive stopped responding normally on my desktop(PC), however I just bought it, with in six months. So I did some troubleshooting, I reset the drive, changed the cable and port, Since it's a WD20000H2Q it has a built in RAID 1 functionality, so I swapped out the A drive for the B drive and left the primary drive out. nothin... Followed Western digitals troubleshooting, but still nothing... I don't think they're support is very good.

The activity light indicates from Western digitals reference, that it's an over heating event.
I unplugged the device an let it sit for a day. plugged it back in, no change.

when I look in Computer management console it see the drive formatted in RAW but can't access it, not sure why it's RAW, it should be NTFS.

some of the things I was doing before it stopped working...

I have a MACbook pro that I connected to my network, and decided to add the mp3 files from my External to the MAC's itunes library and set the Itunes library to the shared WD External. while it was crunching throught the music (500-Gb's of Mp3s) I noticed it stopped once and couldn't access it until I reset my harddrive. Weird I thought. after it was reset my library on the mac was working, everything was playing nice with each other.
Downloaded some video's and decided to stream them from my PC to my TV... for about 15 minutes it worked beautifully. then poof, drive is now inaccessable through windows...

the only things I can think of,



1. the drive could've failed, but unlikely that both did at the same time, and it's relatively new. I'm assuming the data is still there.

2. the Partition could have become corrupted, which would corrupt both drives possibly..
--Partition recovery software cannot access the drive so not sure thats it either
might need a better tool...

3. the enclosure uses some kinda builtin controller card, might have burnt out

Highly suspicous of this, one since I was streaming large ammounts of HD over a little usb connection..

4. The MAC did something to the drive that I am unaware of...

I don't trust MAC, I have one but I still don't trust it. I only have it for photo editing stuff.


any help or suggestions, would be appriciated...

and before anyone suggests, no I won't put it in the freezer...

 

[MilesTeg]

Are you sure that it was in RAID 1 mode? It looks like that encolsure has two 1tb drives and you can set it to either mirror or stripe the drives. If it was mirrored you are right it would be odd to lose both drives unless an electrical issue fried both. you might try opening the enclosure and connecting the drives internally to see if you can read them. If it was striped you might have to buy another and swap out the drives to see if you can read it. Which tools have you tried for recovery? If you are looking for something free, check out this lifehacker post. I have had good results with PhotoRec (works on more than just photos). Good luck!

 

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the first thing I did was try to connect directly to my mac, trying to eliminate the easy stuff first.
nada.
next a different windows machine
nada
so alright, taking the Second drive, I have a little 50 dollar gadget that you can just hotswap esata drives into without cracking open the rig
so, now I'm running file scavenger, with some success... it's just a waiting game now cause this software is dog slow and I got a lot of data to get..

I think I figured out why it's in RAW though, I since WD uses a hardware based RAID, it might use a unix kernel in which case it would be RAW...

ohwell, thanks for the help..