Hello, and thanks for reading this.
I had a RAID 1 set up via my mobo's onbaord RAID controller, a SIL3114. Something happened which cause Windows to crash on this PC, and I'm not sure what. I remember seeing a message that something failed to install on "E" (which was the RAID drive letter). I rebooted and Windows was done. I was able to repair the installation, but afterwards the RAID wasn't available. I rebooted, told the utility to rebuild the RAID using one of the disks, then got to desktop. The RAID was functioning, but Windows doesn't show the driver letter.
I have played around with this quite a bit, and I still haven't messed with one of the drives (the other was formated through experimentation). I am pretty sure the data is there, but I can't seem to get at it. I can initialize the disk in Disk Management, but Windows won't try to read it unless I format it. I downlaoded this VirtualLab software that promised free data recovery, and according to the program the data is all still there, not even marked as deleted. I just can't get at it. The program wants outrageous amounts of money to get the data back, and I don't even know that it will work. It *looks* like the right files, but I have no gaurantee that they'll be uncorrupted if I fork out the cash.
Can anyone help? I am wondering if there is another way to get at this data that I am not thinking of.
I currently have the single drive that I haven't messed with set up as a JBOD in the RAID, but the drive still can't be initialized without a format. It doesn't show up this way as accesable, and if I try to hook it up as a regular drive I get a boot failure message.
I had a RAID 1 set up via my mobo's onbaord RAID controller, a SIL3114. Something happened which cause Windows to crash on this PC, and I'm not sure what. I remember seeing a message that something failed to install on "E" (which was the RAID drive letter). I rebooted and Windows was done. I was able to repair the installation, but afterwards the RAID wasn't available. I rebooted, told the utility to rebuild the RAID using one of the disks, then got to desktop. The RAID was functioning, but Windows doesn't show the driver letter.
I have played around with this quite a bit, and I still haven't messed with one of the drives (the other was formated through experimentation). I am pretty sure the data is there, but I can't seem to get at it. I can initialize the disk in Disk Management, but Windows won't try to read it unless I format it. I downlaoded this VirtualLab software that promised free data recovery, and according to the program the data is all still there, not even marked as deleted. I just can't get at it. The program wants outrageous amounts of money to get the data back, and I don't even know that it will work. It *looks* like the right files, but I have no gaurantee that they'll be uncorrupted if I fork out the cash.
Can anyone help? I am wondering if there is another way to get at this data that I am not thinking of.
I currently have the single drive that I haven't messed with set up as a JBOD in the RAID, but the drive still can't be initialized without a format. It doesn't show up this way as accesable, and if I try to hook it up as a regular drive I get a boot failure message.