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    How to recover data from 'RAW' format

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by wdmalik, Nov 27, 2010.

  1. wdmalik

    wdmalik Notebook Consultant

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    Dears,

    Due to display issues for my laptop, I wanted to recover data as somethings were very imp in HDD. I bought HDD docking drive from Amazon. When I plugged in the drive, i got a message to format the drives, I was checking the status in disk management where i found that drives are in 'RAW format'.
    Can anyone tell me how to recover data, I had the drives in raid format on my area-51 m17x system,
    I have done some internet surfing but still things are unclear for me.

    Thanks
     
    wdmalik, Nov 27, 2010
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  2. mfractal

    mfractal T|I

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    if you were in raid 0 chances are you need the same raid controller to recover your data.
    you can't just connect the two drives to another controller and recover the data

    So, bottom line - only way to recover the data is to put them inside your laptop
     
    mfractal, Nov 28, 2010
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  3. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    If you want the DATA you're going to have to buy the same laptop these hard drives came from.
     
    Nick, Nov 28, 2010
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