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fixing a previously striped raid format

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Aikon3390

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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

David
 
I found this on Vias site:

Use of Highpoint's raidrb utility

Highpoint technical support kindly sent me an early version of their new utility to fix broken stripes on their HPT370//372A controllers. In this early version of the tool it is only possible to fix a RAID-0 array comprising two disks, or a RAID 0+1 array. It will not repair four-disk RAID-0 arrays. The utility raidrb is available on the downloads page. To use the utility do the following:

Remove all IDE devices apart from the broken RAID array
Copy the utility onto a DOS floppy disk, boot from floppy into DOS and then run the utility by typing "raidrb" at the A: prompt (without quotes). You will be presented with four options.
For the first attempt at rebuilding the RAID array, select option 1 "Create the bak file.And then rebuild!". This will save the configuration of your RAID array and then attempt to rebuild the array.
For any subsequent attempts at rebuilding the RAID array, select option 2 "Don't create the bak file.And rebuild!". This will rebuild the array using a previously saved bak file.
If the rebuild fails, use option 3 "Resume these disks' information!" to restore the original disk configuration. This uses the bak file created when you ran option 1.
After running the utility, reboot, and see if you can access the disk from DOS (eg. type DIR). If you can, your disk is repaired!
If the utility fails to rebuild the array, Highpoint recommend you contact their support department. Alternatively you can try one of the other methods below - but be aware that these may prevent Highpoint from offering you an alternative solution to the above. Your choice.
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if it's not a highpoint controller, I guess you can't use it, but your controller mftr might make a similar program.
 
oh cool im gonna try that . . .

k, yeah its a highpoint controller . . HPT372 chipset

i found a program or 2 that have some weird options like virtual striped drive and "assign raid signature" ?

trying to find htat RAIDrb program from highpoint now ...not seeing it on their webpage...
thx for the replies
 
i tried raidrb, didnt fix anything :[

there is about 40gb of data that i didnt have backed up that i could use (not all too important ...but...)
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
 
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