Hi, i set up a 1TB HD-W2 Buffalo disk on a mac using the RAID utility, hoping that if one disk failed the other would preserve my data. However, today I connected the drive to my mac as usual and got "The disc is unreadable, click to initialise". Disk utility couldnt fix the problem.
Am i completely wrong in thinking somewhere inside the shell, all my data is there? Or have i lost it by completely not understanding how RAID works :(
Could anyone tell me if theres any hope of accessing my data, and if so, how on earth to do it?
Im running a intel mac with snow leopard & everything was working fine up until today.
Many thanks
If the Mac shows the disk as unreadable, it's most likely due to filesystem or RAID corruption, which RAID unfortunately does not protect against. I recommend seeking help from a data recovery service if the data is critical.