Rebuilding a Partition

[pantner]

Ok, heres wat happened...

i have a RAID-0 array set up on my computer...recently, my motherboard died, and i want to get data off it (its gonna take a month to get a replacement under warrenty), so i hooked it up to a 'dummy' pc...

set it up as a RAID-0 array in the RAID-BIOS...did auto settings, then when i got into windows (that was on a IDE hard drive) and installed the SATA/RAID drivers i could not see it...so i went into Disk Management, and it was there as a "Not initialised" and "Unallocated" drive...

so, i thought i'd try to re-do it...so i got back into the RAID-BIOS and tried a manual set up...

then it asked me to select the Source Disk, and informed me that the other drive will be wiped!!!!!!!

so, that obviously did that the first time (WITHOUT TELLING ME!!!!)

and now if i look in disk management the first drive (SATA-1) is "Not Initialised" and "Unallocated" (as you would expect as it is one half of a RAID Array) and the other is "On-line" and "Unallocated"...

so, to me, it looks like the partition was deleted on the second drive, without a new one being created...so, IMO, it should be possible to recover the data off it , and get my RAID-Array back...but i have no idea how to go about doing it...

anybody here know anything about it at all???

 

[Uncle Bob]

Well, you need to be using the array on the same type of controller as was on the motherboard that died as a first step

other than that, you need to be looking at data recovery software;
look here http://forums.anandtech.com/me...2&threadid=1427753

 

[pantner]

thanks...i have actually been able to find a program that'll do it...but to get a decent amount of data off it you need to buy a licence...it has a special section for RAID-0 and RAID-5...

i will try that "EasyRecovery Professional" that was mentioned in the other thread...