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Salvaging data from Sara set to raid 0

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mattpegher

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I am trying to save some pics from my laptop. Two sata hdd set to raid 0. When I try hooking either drive to a sata-USB adapter it can't read the drive and asks if I want to format it. Do I need additional hardware to read the drive?

Thanks
 
If the drive your speaking of is part of that raid-0 then you can only recover the files if the drives are still in the raid-0. The files are split up into 2 pieces so you will never get your files off of one hdd from a raid-0. If one drive has died and you only have one working drive left then unfortunately you are sol because that drive does not contain complete files.
 
Unless you can access them in the laptop where they are in RAID0, you can't ever access them on a single drive. RAID0 (striping) splits the data between the drives. For a laptop it is not really a good idea, but now you know that.

To get them all in one drive, the laptop RAID0 array would have to be cloned to an external single drive.
 
you might be able to recover the data if you have the same raid controller in a different system.
 
How did you make them RAID in the laptop?

You need to use the exact same hardware/software in the desktop PC. So, if you used an Intel chipset integrated RAID, then use a desktop PC with the same generation of Intel Chipset intergrated RAID, and configure it using the exact same parameters.
 
Mark R said:
How did you make them RAID in the laptop?

You need to use the exact same hardware/software in the desktop PC. So, if you used an Intel chipset integrated RAID, then use a desktop PC with the same generation of Intel Chipset intergrated RAID, and configure it using the exact same parameters.
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Came that way from sager. I forget why.
 
You could try a Linux Live CD and the dmraid driver. It's a native Linux software RAID driver that understands a lot of the crappy, onboard RAID configuration data and might be able to reassemble the array if both drives are working.
 
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