Dumping the enclosure and using the HD

Summary:

Taking apart my enclosure and using the hard drive in another computer

Dumping the enclosure and using the HD

yale2011 1257080732|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

So, my MBWE I (1tb) isn't detected on the network anymore. The light won't turn on either, but I can still hear/feel the disk spinning. I called WD, and they told me I should send it to them for it to be replaced. Unfortunately, they also said they won't save my data, and I would have to go through a "data recovery company". It is the just the enclosure that is bad; I don't need my data "recovered".
I figure I can just take an older computer, give it a SATA card, and use the old computer as sort of a NAS in itself, and dump the dead enclosure. Is this a reasonable idea? How easy will this process likely be? I've got a lot of experience with GNU/Linux, but none with hardware. :) Does the data partition use ext3, or another fs? Has anyone else tried this?

Thanks for your help

Re: Dumping the enclosure and using the HD

jpik 1257226164|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi, I didn't know if i should start a new post since the same thing happened to me. I have a single drive 500GB model. i pulled the drive out and neither my mac or XP machine can see the drive contents. both can see the drive through various utilites. I was wondering if i bought another (new) world edition if I could toss this old drive in and at least copy my files off of it?

Re: Dumping the enclosure and using the HD

hunnimonstr 1257386655|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

My 1TB single drive nas died on me, i pulled the disk bought a sata usb enclosure from ebuyer for £15, and pluged in the disk to find 4 raid partitions which using a ext2 reader under win xp reported each partition as being unformatted??? the disk manager under win7 did not recognise the partitions, and I could not mount them from from the *nix system on the ps3???

any pointers please????