After a reinstall of windows xp professional to a separate hd, the first driver I installed was for my hpt374 raid controller on my IT7 motherboard. After restarting, I was surprised that my partitions on my raid0 setup didn't show up. I went to local disk management and saw my raid drive, but it didn't show it being partitioned. I right clicked on it and the only option I saw was something about dynamic disk (you know where I'm going with this)... I clicked on it... and I turned my raid drive into a dynamic disk. I have no idea at all what to do about this, I had 4 partitions on my raid0 setup, and now only the first one shows up. Should I delete the dynamic volume that is the first partition on my raid0 setup? Or will that delete my data on that partition as well? Right now I'm running a scan with a program called R-Studio demo (a data recovery program) to see if it can recover my data. If it can, I will have to pay $80 for the software and however much a 120 gig hd is going for these days to extract the data to(my raid0 setup totalled 240 gigs [120x2], but I only need like 110 gigs off of it). Is there anything else I can do to avoid having to pay for all of this? ANY help at all would be greatly appreciated, I'm kind of freaking out right now 🙁. I need to get some backup stuff off of my raid setup.
Also, I'm sure its not a hardware failure, my drives are only like 2 months old. I know the data is still there on the hds, I just need to figure out how to get at it.
Thanks for even reading my post... and thanks like 10x more if you respond.
Fosuco
Also, I'm sure its not a hardware failure, my drives are only like 2 months old. I know the data is still there on the hds, I just need to figure out how to get at it.
Thanks for even reading my post... and thanks like 10x more if you respond.
Fosuco
