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

[Nocturnal]

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?

 

[V00D00]

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.

 

[Arcanedeath]

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.

 

[crispy2010]

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!