Get data from HDD

[warrior23]

Recently my 1TB western digital my book pro world edition II networking hdd died, i called support and they put me though a bunch of **** and 3rd party companys to resorect the data witch i would still have to pay for despite the drive been in warrenty, the drive is made up on two hdd inside each 500GB, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some sort of tutorials on this sort of thing so i can do it myself, I have tried just simply taking the drives out and plugging them directly into my sata ports but no dice, nothing comes up at all in linux, What programs are there out there to do this sort of thing?

PS. i know the data is still there as it was the power that screwed up, no lights no nothing......

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome.
I'd say get the Ultimate Boot CD or Parted Magic and try that. Both of them have Testdisc and Photorec which are HD recovery tools.
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[warrior23]

Downloading now, In Fedoras Disk Utility it comes up say's, "raid Component", Is this generally going to be an ******* to get my information back?

[MikeTbob]

Downloading now, In Fedoras Disk Utility it comes up say's, "raid Component", Is this generally going to be an ******* to get my information back?

Well, I've not had the pleasure of needing to use software like this yet but in my opinion, I think this really depends on the user (you), are you good with Linux and following directions? Then it shouldn't be too hard provided that you can find someone here who has actually used these type of programs for recovery successfully. It also depends on the Hd too, too many errors and the data is worthless right? I think you should give the tools a try and post your findings back here, someone will help you decide what to do next.

[oz]

Hello and welcome!

I've often recommended to the utilities suggested above by MikeTbob and most users report back that they worked fine for them, so hopefully they'll work as well for you.