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Extremely Urgent: Data recovery from failed Dynamic Disk

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Bagheera

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Hi everyone. I am running three hard drives on my system, a new Maxtor 200GB for C:, and a 20GB Maxtor + 40GB IBM spanned into a 60GB Dynamic Volume for D:. I believe the IBM 40GB just died on me, while the Maxtor 20GB is still working. But regardless, the death of the IBM 40GB renders the entire spanned volume unreadable.

The good news, I hope, is that the Maxtor 20GB was used as D: before I added the 40GB IBM as a span (the IBM 40GB was the original C:, which the Maxtor 200GB replaced). This means that most of the data I had in D: should still be located on the Maxtor 20GB. I am hoping there is a way to recover the data that are still on the Maxtor 20GB. Is there? If anyone know any possible way of recovering the data from one of the disks in a multi-disk Dynamic Volume, please let me know! I have 3GB of artwork collections, many MP3s and movie files at stake here (luckily I backed up the programs and settings but... it's the artworks, which took forever to collect, that worries me)

Please help!!!
 
I don't think there is any way to recover from a failed RAID-0 array. The data is striped across both physical discs, so when one is gone, the whole partition is shot.

It always sucks to lose data. Let it be a lesson learned, however. Never put ANY data you can't live without on a RAID-0 array!
 
this is a software RAID, not hardware, and the 40GB was added only very recently. You very nothing can be recovered? T_T
 
Here let me fix some spelling errors

Originally posted by: Bagheera
Hi everyone. I am running three hard drives on my system, a new Maxtor 200GB for C:, and a 20GB Maxtor + 40GB IBM spanned into a 60GB Dynamic Volume for D:. I believe the IBM 40GB just died on me, while the Maxtor 20GB is still working. But regardless, the death of the IBM 40GB renders the entire spanned volume unreadable.

The good news, I hope, is that the Maxtor 20GB was used as D: before I added the 40GB IBM as a span (the IBM 40GB was the original C:, which the Maxtor 200GB replaced). This means that most of the data I had in D: should still be located on the Maxtor 20GB. I am hoping there is a way to recover the data that are still on the Maxtor 20GB. Is there? If anyone know any possible way of recovering the data from one of the disks in a multi-disk Dynamic Volume, please let me know! I have 3GB of porn collections, many MP3s and movie files at stake here (luckily I backed up the programs and settings but... it's the porn, which took forever to collect, that worries me)

Please help!!!
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not very funny, Savarak. I don't collect porn. Sorry if you do.

Now, I use the WindowsXP Dynamic Volume, which is utilized through the Computer Management (Local). I am not actually sure if it does stripping, because I lost no data when I created the spanned volume (it didn't require me to make a brand new partition - just my existing partition on D: converted to Dynamic, which I then spanned)

From what I understand of hardware RAID, it erases the previous partition to create a new, spanned volume..
 
If there is recoverable data on that disc Stellar Phoenix will let you know if it's there.
Only catch is, you will have to pay for the full version to use it to actually recover the files.

It saved my butt a year or so ago when I mistakenly erased my wife's saved files.
 
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