pre existing raid 0 onto Win 10 machine?

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hi everyone. I have a WD external hard drive that had its controller fail (but the drives are ok). Luckily it wasn't one of the kind with hardware encryption. However, the drive enclosure had 2 x 1TB hard drives linked via RAID 0 to appear as a single 2TB drive.

So my question is : how can I take the two drives and connect them directly to my computer, then get my computer to recognize them as the original single RAID so I can see and extract any files off of it?

This is just a temporary need. once I have all my files i will re format the drives and use them as extra storage.
 
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VERY UNLIKELY to work.

There is NO "standard" for how RAID is done. So what the RAID controller built into your external enclosure did to run those two HDD's is VERY likely NOT the same as a different RAID controller system inside you computer might do. Thus, the "new" RAID controller system could not read what is already on the disks.

The only reliable way to get your data back from those disks is to connect them to an identical RAID system. That might means contacting the maker of the old enclosure and getting a replacement internal board for it. NOTE that it is important to connect the two HDD units to the SAME ports on the controller board as they were originally. If you reverse them, the data is not readable. IF the maker cannot...
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VERY UNLIKELY to work.

There is NO "standard" for how RAID is done. So what the RAID controller built into your external enclosure did to run those two HDD's is VERY likely NOT the same as a different RAID controller system inside you computer might do. Thus, the "new" RAID controller system could not read what is already on the disks.

The only reliable way to get your data back from those disks is to connect them to an identical RAID system. That might means contacting the maker of the old enclosure and getting a replacement internal board for it. NOTE that it is important to connect the two HDD units to the SAME ports on the controller board as they were originally. If you reverse them, the data is not readable. IF the maker cannot supply a replacement control board, ask whether they can supply an alternative new enclosure that uses the SAME RAID system so that your existing HDD units can be plugged into that and the data recovered.
 
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