RAID gone wrong, can I recover the data ?

OS: Windows 11

I wanted two hard drives to mirror each other., so RAID 1 seemed good.

I had some software that came with the external caddy I have for these hard drives, which made the RAID 1 array.

Everything seemed to work fine.

I just went to back some stuff up to it and it seemed very, VERY slow at writing to it.

I tried to “safely remove hardware” but it wasn’t having any of it, so I just powered off the external caddy.

After plugging it in again, Windows 11 now says “The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable”.

I have tried each disk individually but I get the same error.

Where do I go from here?

I am happy to get rid of the RAID as it seems more problems than it’s worth.

If I delete the RAID (using the software), will it also delete the data?

Looked in Disk Management and it shows as a RAW volume.

Doing a chkdsk on it now.

• This topic was modified 3 weeks, 4 days ago by bebir.