Re: LCD Message : FAILED: Disk 1
You will not be able to recover anything from drive 1. Your only option is a recovery service since you were not in RAID1. Now you have learned a hard lesson on why backups are still required. If you were in RAID 1 (Mirror) you would not have lost any data. This is the primary reason person buy the 2200 is for it's raid 1 function.
Open the unit up and confirm that both drive are the same MFG, model, and firmware. If by chance you have Maxtors, you need to get a new set of drives (2). And DO NOT BUY MAXTOR, these have the highest failure rate in the industry. I have seen maxtors fail with in days of each other. If this is the case you need to backup your currently working drive, immediately.
Once you have your current data backed up you may be able to swap controller cards and get it up, if drives were identical. But if its a media failure recovery service is your only option. If media problem you can try SpinRite by GRC. Sometimes it works sometimes not. But in any case I recommend you run it on your new drives. Mfg no longer check media for defects and rely on the SMART system to allocate spares. If in raid this can fail a drive if the response took to long.
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