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Recovering info from corrupted RAID-0

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hevnsnt

Lifer
Ok, spare me the "I told ya so" and the "Should have backed it up" Trust me I know, and I yell at people to do the same all the time.. Well I learned my lesson on this one..

Ok, here is the deal, I was running two 160's in a RAID-0 configuration. These drives were the only drives in the system running on an NForce 2 Pro board. It had everything on it (formatted NTFS), windows, apps, and a file server directory.

Well, I started to get some corrupted files but running chkdsk /f fixed it. (the first couple times). I knew I had to get my stuff off of there, but the inevitable happened before I could do it. My windows would not boot. As soon as I tried to boot to an XP disc, as soon as I loaded the raid driver it would *INSTANTLY* reboot.

Well I decided that I would take the drives off the raid controller and hook them up to the IDE controller so I could run some tests on the drives so I could see which disk had died. Well when I booted with the Drives on the IDE controller, the Raid controler (not having any drives) deleted the raid configuration. Oh well, I decided to test anyway. Both drives passed both of the tests fine.. Must have only been some windows corruption.

So I threw a spare 120 in there, installed XP, then hooked up the drives back to the raid controller and recreated a new raid. It told me that I would loose all my data, but I figured that since these drives were already RAID drives, it wouldnt matter.

Anyways.. When I booted windows, installed the RAID controller driver, Windows Initialized the new 320 as an unpartitioned volume. The drives have not been formatted, and all my data is still on them, and I would like to pull all this data off.... (well the important stuff like family pictures, resumes etc)

Does anyone know how to do this? Is it possible?
 
Oh boy! The data is probably still there but getting to it is going to be a <insert suitable expletive here>

Assuming that the drives are connected the same way round as they were originally, low-level sector reads should return the original data, try messing around with disc probe for starters. just look for fragments of recognisable data (filenames, text documents). If that indicates that some data is still there then you're going to have to obtain some data recovery software and be prepared for long hours and headaches

good luck




 
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