initialize disk but keep data?

[eyeball]

Hi all,

i have a disk that i plugged into a pc but in diskmgmt it asks me to initialize it. i realise this will format it, but i dont want that i want the data on it. can anyone suggest a way i can get the data off it please?

thanks

[LLXX]

If there was data on it, it got corrupted.

Search this forum and the software forum for "data recovery", many others have had the same situation as you.

[eyeball]

no it didnt, actually its from a raid 1 config but the raid card broke and is no longer available for use so im trying to recover the data.

im using recover my files on one of the disks to get the data to see if that works anyway