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How do I retrieve data off of a Raid 0 array?

Nocturnal

Nocturnal

Lifer
A friend of mine said he was having issues so he disconnected both drives and brought them to me to see if I can retrieve anything for him. Would I need to rebuild the Raid 0 array? He did not break the Raid array obviously as it is a Raid 0 array. Any ideas or is he SOL?
 
You will need to connect the drives to the same controller that the RAID array was made with. If it is a PCI card you will just need to get that from him. If it was an onboard controller you will need to get your buddy's computer.

RAID 0 is stupid, I hope your buddy learned a lesson. He should have backed up his data if he was playing that risk.

You cannot rebuild a RAID 0 array as far as I know. I don't claim to be an expert, but there is nothing to be rebuilt. There is no parity information to recreate the information as with a RAID 5 array. With RAID 1 arrays you just copy one drive directly to another to rebuild. So as far as I know your SOL.
 
He's SOL unless you have the same controler card that his array was on and it doesn't require reformating the array when new drives are connected.
 
You might get lucky hooking them up to a pc that has raid, but is not being used. It might show up as a extra drive. Would be nice if it was the same controller. Mabye a pc with windows sys on sata drive, that is if the raid you speak of is ide!

Wow I type slow, I say it is worth a try!
 
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