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Raid 0 crash. Help!

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mailo456

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So i had two samsung 186 GB HDD in raid-0 configuration. Then the power in the house went out and my computer shut off. When i powerd it on my raid config didnt work, and i could not fix the raid config unfortunately.
So I had to format both harddisk back to two regular harddrives.
is my pictures lost?
When I use recoveryprograms i find all my pictures, but 99,8% is corrupt (picture, all pictures are like the second picture. just scrambled)
BUT, I can recover all the pictures from both harddrives, is there a way of reuniting the fragments to make the pictures functional again?

(the ironic thing in all this is, I had backup of all my pictures on a third harddrive, wich died in the powershortage...😡 what are the odds? )

Please help! 🙁

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So I had to format both harddisk back to two regular harddrives.
is my pictures lost?
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You might try a professional data recovery service, but at this point there are no guarantees, and you're very unlikely to recover the originals from the RAID-0 that you formatted.

Your best bet is a professional data recovery service on the non-raid'd, back-up drive. If these pictures are valuable to you, I wouldn't do anything else to any of the drives before you contacted a professional service.
 
mailo456 said:
(the ironic thing in all this is, I had backup of all my pictures on a third harddrive, wich died in the powershortage...😡 what are the odds? )
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Actually? The odds are pretty good. That's why secondary non-live (backup HD in a dresser drawer that only gets used once a week) or offsite (Crashplan / Backblaze) backups are pretty common.

Once you lose a brand new motherboard because somebody turned on an electric motor elsewhere in the house, you learn to make allowances for fate.
 
Yeah, never, ever have your back up plugged in unless you are backing up to the drive. If possible, plug it, or the server into a UPS with some battery that'll let you shut down the box gracefully if there ever is a power outage. If you are not using the drive, unplug it from power and USB, leave it connected to nothing. If you can, store it offsite.

I have lost raid arrays before, luckily yours is small, so you MIGHT be able to recover stuff yourself.

Some software to try, in order of luck i've had: runtime get data back, undelete, easy recovery pro v 6+

get data back seems to almost always work.
 
It might be a more complex process to recover those important files since it was stored in a RAID0 and secondly the drives are already been formatted. You might be able to see your files using data recovery applications but chances are most of them are corrupted.
As suggested your best bet to retrieve those files would be a reputable data recovery service facility like WeRecoverData, since these companies have much more sophisticated tools and have great experience on rebuilding corrupted data from a failed RAID or storage medias.
 
I really hope you can recover your data by whatever means -- some of your responses offer encouraging possibilities, which are of course also inconvenient, time-consuming or costly.

The hindsight value of your experience appears in the remarks by ViviTheMage, and I will put them in a typeface hard to ignore:


UPS

This isn't "United Postal Service." It is "Uninterruptable Power Supply," also known as "Battery Backup:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-070-_-Product

Find out your average power-draw on your computer, pad it with some extra watts, and pick a UPS from Cyber, APC, Tripplite etc. such that the VA rating multiplied by 0.60 accommodates your estimate.

I've had friends who lost their computers to "going south with blue screens" even with the use of a surge-protector, and I can't imagine someone using a desktop system these days without a UPS. Yes -- they are expensive, but yes -- they are a form of "insurance." Like your AV/firewall programs, they might cost you $20 per year per computer.
 
what recovery software did you try?

step one is not to use the drives.

Liklyhood of getting the data back depends on the drives being able to work.

The software I use (file scavanger, http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm) is ment to work with raid arrays, but I have only used it in about every other form of data corruption possible and it has been quite good to me. Even a co-workers attempt at a quick format came back quite acceptable in my book.

It is a paid for program, so not sure if there is a better free one around. I have been using this one since about version 2, what feels like 7 years ago now.
 
So here is an update.

The time when this powershortage happened and I lost all my data, was 9 years ago! Ever since I have been trying every program under the sun to try and get my pictures back..have been cursing myself for loosing all my family fotos since that day (even doh i did have backup wich died that same day)
But lets face it, raid0 is a scairy thing..at least when something goes wrong. During this past 9 years I have read about peope where "simple" problems have happen with their raid0 configuration, such as array problems, changing MB, controller issues...But then ther's my problem, I had formatted both harddrives as individual drives. So all this time a guess i was looking for a program that could recreate the raid0 configuration i once had (9 years ago) AND to recover my files.

Good news! yesterday I DID!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tried "ReclaiME Free raid recovery" and it told me to select the two HDDs that once where in the raid0 settup. so i did, and after a few minutes of waiting I could see ALL my pictures!! I was so happy I litteraly could cry.
the program that recovers the raid0 settup is free, but you need an aditional program to recover your files with cost $79 wich i gladly paid.

I just wanted to tell you this story, and how happy I am because of ReclaiME software, it is truly an amazing pice of software! I will stay tha he** away from raid0 from now on ^_^

I'm off now, have a couple of 1000 pictures to organize :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
 
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how is it <removed> Free raid recovery and you had to pay $79 USD?
 
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and now you know!

always have backups, and make sure those backups are offline unless backing up. You can use a raid 0 as your scratch just know that if one drive fails, that data is gone... so keep those backups up to date.

Also consider a UPS like we mentioned earlier for that computer.
 
berryracer said:
how is it Reclaime free raid recovery and you had to pay $79 USD?
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the program to reconstruct the raid as it once was, is free. But to be able to retrieve the files you need theyr recovery program that costs money. 😉
anyway, i'm happy.
 
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