EDIT: problem solved, thanks guys
ok, first of all, i do data recovery all the time, its what occupies half my time at work. but for the life of me i cant think of any ideas on how to recover data off of 2 200gb drives in a broken array, and what i mean by broken, is that when the drives failed, they were taken out and raptors put in, and the raid controller was reprogrammed.
what i plan on doing, is using the same mobo, taking the raptors out, sticking the 200's in, and recreating the raid-0 array.... my concern is what will the controller do to the drives, i allready know it will create an unpartitioned physical drive (at least i hope it will), and leaves it unformatted. if it did that my job would be easy because i could start up Ontrack and do a RAW recovery, or even a format recovery
but here is my concern, what if i get the drives swapped? like drive 0 is now 1, if that happened then it would be impossible to pull information off because the stripes would be reversed and the files would be screwed up. unless when Ontrack detects that and fixes it accordingly. also, if i recreate the array and its the wrong way, would i be able to recreate without jeapordizing the data.
software being used: Ontrack EasyRecovery Professional
existing controller for drives: onboard VIA 2 port
using same exact mobo to recreate array
the data is critical to recover, but if its not possible with the tools i got then the customer is just going to have to start over.
any ideas? solutions? documents/instructions?
ok, first of all, i do data recovery all the time, its what occupies half my time at work. but for the life of me i cant think of any ideas on how to recover data off of 2 200gb drives in a broken array, and what i mean by broken, is that when the drives failed, they were taken out and raptors put in, and the raid controller was reprogrammed.
what i plan on doing, is using the same mobo, taking the raptors out, sticking the 200's in, and recreating the raid-0 array.... my concern is what will the controller do to the drives, i allready know it will create an unpartitioned physical drive (at least i hope it will), and leaves it unformatted. if it did that my job would be easy because i could start up Ontrack and do a RAW recovery, or even a format recovery
but here is my concern, what if i get the drives swapped? like drive 0 is now 1, if that happened then it would be impossible to pull information off because the stripes would be reversed and the files would be screwed up. unless when Ontrack detects that and fixes it accordingly. also, if i recreate the array and its the wrong way, would i be able to recreate without jeapordizing the data.
software being used: Ontrack EasyRecovery Professional
existing controller for drives: onboard VIA 2 port
using same exact mobo to recreate array
the data is critical to recover, but if its not possible with the tools i got then the customer is just going to have to start over.
any ideas? solutions? documents/instructions?
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