RAID corrupted. Now what????

[ignorant1]

I've totally screwed up! I STUPIDLY did not make a recent backup, and now am desparate to acccess files. I hope that someone can help me as to what to do!

I had a functioning mirrored RAID 1 setup with Win XP using the onboard (AMD) RAID controller. The disks were divided into two partions, one for the OS, and one that was not ever formatted.

I tried to boot off of only one of the two discs, and things went to hell from there. I tried booting using the bios set to all three modes - RAID, AHCI, and IDE. I (stupidly) entered the RAID controller to try re-assigning one drive and that probably fried it. I tried using windows "recovery console" but it doesnt see any windows installation on the disk. I then used the "fixmbr" command on that disk, then I tried the "FIXBOOT" command, and now that disk shows as a corrupted partition table and is completely inaccessable.

I havent (yet) totally fried the other disk - it shows up under Windows Explorer in Win7, but is inaccessable. Looking at the disk under "Disk Management" in "computer management" shows the OS partition still exists, but it is labled as "RAW" instead of NTFS or FAT32. Can anyone help me to figure out how to access the files on that disk?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for ANY help!

Gigabyte MA78GM-US2H motherboard (rev. 1.0 with AMD 780G + SB700 Chipset)
AMD Kuma 7750 processor (passive cooling for QUIET!)
4 gigs ram
OCZ Vertex 60gb SSD w/ windows 7 (now)
WAS: Windows XP on 2x 250gb Samsung hard drives in RAID 1, now corrupted!

 

[Russwinters]

Easy Breezy


RAID 1 is treated as a single drive, since it is a mirrored array.



Download a copy of R-Studio, select the drive (right click it) and select "Scan"


uncheck what filesystem you know are not present on the disc, and then away you go.


it will perform a bit for bit scan of the surface and use it's algorithm to build the MFT back up.

the program does cost money, you can download a demo version of to at least see if it will work.

You can also try Getdataback for NTFS


Regards,

 

[superunknown98]

You could also try reading the disk with a Knoppix live cd. Don't know if it will work for sure, but worth a try if nothing else does.

 

[ignorant1]

Thanks guys! I really appreciate your help!

 

[delco007]

you can also try "Testdisk" . it has helped me in rebuilding the partition table of a lot of hard drives.

Go for RAID 5... RAID mirror doesn't sound like a good choice to me...if one drive crashes or gets corrupt ... it is most likely that the second drive will also go bad.

Regards
Guru