broken striped raid!!!!!!!! please helpppppppppp

[Aikon3390]

Hi
i striped 2 40gb hd's togeahter a month ago about . . .and a few days ago one of them failed on me

so i bought a new harddrive, still hoping that the failed harddrive would come back to life...and to my surprise, it did
the only problem is, that while it was acting up (i was a bit frustrated with it) i entered the raid bios and hit destroy raid stripe (knowing that was a pointless thing to do....), so now i dont know what to do
is there any way i can just fix that destroyed stripe? both harddrives have all the info on them and all, it just needs to make the connection
any way to repair a broken striped raid?

i have tons of saved stuff on it, really dont want to lose all of it!!!! please help !! is there a program or anything out there i could get? hmm...

David

 

[Mucman]

If you had it setup as RAID 0 then this is the risk you take... If you were running RAID 1 or 5 you would be sitting pretty though

 

[n0cmonkey]

Restoring from backups isnt *THAT* bad.

 

[Mucman]

Hmm... you do have backups, right?

 

[Aikon3390]

well, i have backups of the really important stuff . .but there still is about 40gb of data that i didnt have backed up that i would really want
i got some programs such as R-STUDIO 2.0 demo that should do it ....i can detect some files and run it through , but the program is shareware so i cant recover files larger than 64kb :/

so it is possible to recover something

 

[larciel]

can you say 'uh-oh' ..

i've had same problem w/ IBM 75gxp.. *shudders*..

well spent the night restoring.. (had back up

good luck

 

[ElDonAntonio]

I have no experience in doing what you suggest, but this page might help.
You could also look into a program called recoverNT, or Disc Commander. Good luck amigo!

 

[ElDonAntonio]

btw, what's the exact command you executed in the bios (what you describe as "destroy raid stripe")? a google search on that phrase might be useful.

 

[Moonbender]

Have you tried calling support? I'd assume the RAID chipset manufacturer would know what to do. Not sure if they're going to support you if the chipset is part of a motherboard, but trying can't hurt.

 

[KK]

When I had my raid striped over 3 harddrives before one went bye-bye, I did something in WinXP to change the partition to a dynamic disk or something like that. Well after I did that any time I would reboot, It would say that my array was off-line. I'd have to go into the fast trak utility and delete the array, then make a new one, and then it would boot up through the operating system. I didn't lose any data doing this, but it was kind of a pain in the ass to do.

KK