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So let me get this story straight:
1. You had an external harddrive, of which the enclosure broke.
2. You dismantled the enclosure and attached it to your SATA controller.
3. Your computer recognized the drive.
Here's where I get confused:
4. Your computer automatically formatted the drive and added the drive to your RAID 5 array.
My question is, were you running a RAID 5 array with a drive missing or something? RAID 5 shouldn't autorebuild its data unless (1) a drive failed at some point in the RAID array, (2) you plug in a new drive to replace the broken one, and I thought (3) you have to tell it to add the drive to the array.
Was this software or hardware RAID? Since you say Windows formatted it, I would guess software, but I thought, in Windows, you had to specifically set dynamic disk partitions to be in an array. But I digress.
Try the free program called PC Inspector File Recovery, it should do what you need, hopefully.
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