Not Initialized/Unallocated HDDs - Old HDDs from other computer with data

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Hey guys so I have 2 HDD's that were partitioned into one drive, each 500gb, and I'm trying to get them working on my new computer.
I got them all plugged in with the correct sata cables and what not but the disk is showing as 'Not initialized/Unallocated' you can see in the image below.

http://i.imgur.com/pyamHsy.png

These drives have data on them that I'm trying to use, is there anyway of fixing this without clearing the data/formatting?
 
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Boogieman_WD
Hey there, voxadub.

What do you mean partitioned as one drive? If you're talking about RAID 0, then I'm afraid you won't be able to get your data when connected to a different PC.
You could try connecting them back to the old computer in order to see if you'll get lucky and if the drives are properly recognized again and if you can get the data off of them, but I don't want to lie to you, if this was a software RAID, chances are that you might not get your data back this way.

There are RAID 0 data recovery programs available on the web, so you might want to check into that. Your other option is data recovery company, but it's not guaranteed that it would work and it might require quite a large budget.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
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Hey there, voxadub.

What do you mean partitioned as one drive? If you're talking about RAID 0, then I'm afraid you won't be able to get your data when connected to a different PC.
You could try connecting them back to the old computer in order to see if you'll get lucky and if the drives are properly recognized again and if you can get the data off of them, but I don't want to lie to you, if this was a software RAID, chances are that you might not get your data back this way.

There are RAID 0 data recovery programs available on the web, so you might want to check into that. Your other option is data recovery company, but it's not guaranteed that it would work and it might require quite a large budget.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
 
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