Raid Reset? Problem.

[Silex]

I'm sorry to bother you guys, but I'm new here and one of my friends referred me here saying that you guys to helpa poor soul liek me. Well all of a sudden like 10 min ago, my raid failed. I had 2 seagate baracuda iv's striped on 0. Then after I rebooted I noticed that my raid card didnt say they were striuped anymore and just recognized them as seperate drives. So when Io booted back into windows, it still showed the raided drive being h: but I couldn't access it.

Also when I checked out disk management, it shopwed one of the hd's being seen but it wasnt a dynamic disk and it had no drive letter associated with it.

I use an add-on raid card.
This one. When I go into the bios, the only relevant options I can choose are create raid or delete raid. If i try to recreate it, then all my data will be erased which i cant do cause EVERYTHING is on there. BTW these drives are for data storage.

My main boot up drive is a 20 gig maxtor with a 60 gig western digitial on the primary slave. A liteon burner on the seconday master and no secondary slave. On the add-on card, the primary master is a 75 gig ibm drive and the 2 seagates are raided on the secondary master and slave. Please help me out guys! I'm hopeing somebody has fixed this problem.

Specs:
Tbird 1.4
256 sdr ram, crucial
lotsa hard drives cause this is my secondary computer and im just doing this so i can burn all my data

I'm sorry if i made lots of typos.. I'm really kinda scared right now because I don't want to lose my data . ?I hope someone out there can help. Thanks.

 

[Tripleshot]

It is probably too late. Raid 0 is for performance, not fault tolerence. You made the choice when you set it up. You should have thought of the risk, as well as the risk of using a no name add-on card. You either have high point raid controller or promise raid controller. Anything else is "you get what you pay for".

If you are not running raid 1 or 5, then do regular back ups of your data, just for this reason.

Sorry.

 

[Silex]

My add-on card is far from a no-name brand. Sorry I forgot to post the link to the card but it's the one here and this is the link to the specs sheet. It uses the HPT370A chipset which I know is outdated, but I'm hoping that someone who uses a newer chipset like the 372 can tell me if they have the option to restripe the drives w.o deleting the contents, because if that is true, I'm going out right now to buy a new raid card. BTW, here's the link to the highpoint support site. Thanks for whoever can help me.

Also the funny thing is that it was failing while I was backing it up. I was burning all my data and was right in the middle of it...

 

[Tripleshot]

I have used High point controllers for the last couple years. you are in deep doo doo. I have never been able to save data with highpoint controllers.

I have switched to Promise. It does the job.

Again, Sorry. You need to back up your data. You have just learned a costly lesson.