Hi guys,

This is my first post on this forum, and I hope to get an answer asp Cheesy. I have(had) an external hard drive (one tra) working properly until yesterday. The hard drive failed to RUN when I restarted my computer. The first step I took to FIGURE out the problem was to listening to the sound of the hard drive to SEE if it is spinning. The sound was something like TICK, tick. So, I thought that the hard disk has had it. So, I opened the case (after putting it in fridge for an hour). There are two 500gb hard disks working together (RAID 0 I guess). I tried to connect each 500gb separately to my desktop. My desktop is able to recognize just one of the hard disks, but I have to format it in ORDER to use it (not the case cuz I need my files!!!) but it seems that both hard disks are working properly (no tick tick sound anymore).

Today, I bought a new SATA data cable and connect both hard disks to my desktop. Right now, in Computer Management I am able to see both hard disks. One is recognized as a ROW and the other is recognized as un-initialized.

my question is: do I have to do something so my desktop recognizes both hard disks as a one big hard disk (RAID) ? how can I retrieve all my files?

Thanks in advance,

NimaYou've already posted this question elsewhere on the forum. Please don't post the same question more than once - it only confuses those trying to help you.