Mike, ship it to me and I'll take a look.... No promises of success, but I'll give you a better idea of how bad it is worst case.

PM me if you need my address +++

Also, let me know the path / partition if known of the data you most want. I'll prioritise that, with anything else being a bonus....

Thanks,

Here is the 2 barcodes on it
PK1H01005795059AU3370H3U0DEHAA00UC006000000
&
PK1H0

here is a scan of the disk info
http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1359461174

Cool.

Model no is ST9250315AS - Loads on Ebay circa £40. Including faulty ones :(

I share HPSauces reservations about swapping electrickery over - It used to work in the good old days when discs were really dumb and just held data, but now the discs themselves hold info about their own config, its a bit more of a minefield.

Lets start by seeing what is readable 'as-is', and take it from there.

If data is priceless and money no object it might be worth giving it to professionals as poking around and trying to do something might cause more damage. Prices does start at £300-400 mark but can go in thousands. They transfer platters to another disk in clean room environment, do 1 to 1 bit by bit copy to another disk and recover from there

Did you change one of disks in RAID or just rebuilt it with existing disks? If it's the same disks you might be able to recover from there depending how much writing has been done to them.

On the other hand if you only tried to use it in USB caddy it might be caddies fault or USB connection and not the disk itself.

One more trick I have used in past is to cool down the disk while recovering. I put disk in plastic bag with silica gel to absorb any condensate and then that bag in ice water to keep it cool and then just add more ice as it melts. But for me it's always been about not paying $$$ and just recovering what's possible rather then getting it regardless of cost.

Sorry no 250's ,20's,60's and 120's . Hope you manage to get your data

Data can be recovered from formatted drives. Again, providing you have not overwritten the parts containing what you want.
It may be worth a Google of 'recover data from formatted drives' and see what's on offer out there.
Good luck with it

Thanks anyway matey. +++

Do I need to get an identical drive to transfer the rescued data to or will any drive do?

If swapping componants is required of course I'll get an identical drive.

No, anything reliable will do +++

My first course of action would be to attempt to duplicate as much data as possible off the failed disc into a virtual image i can then work with.

Said image would be stored on Raid 6 naturally +++

Wow that was quick! You're not stalking me are you?

I only want the data from the C Drive and any video files the rest is not required. I'll give you a call this evening Ian if that's all right.

No, I stalk the forum..... :D

If you can call before 5:30 it would be ideal as its movie night with the kids on a Friday +++

Otherwise try me anytime, worst case I'll miss you an buzz you back +++