SATA RAID drive question

[dragonpunk]

my friend's computer has a bad windows, and he has 2 160gb sata drives in raid 0.
situation:
1. he cant get into windows.
2. he needs to reinstall windows.
3. he needs to save all his documents/mp3s.

I want to take one/both of his drive and put in my computer as a slave drive,
(using my ide drive as master) copy all his documents,
and then put it back so he can reinstall windows.

now, is it possible for me to do that without screwing anything up?
thx.

 

[GrammatonJP]

taking 1 = auto death

raid 0 =

a 4k data file will be split 2k + 2k

you take 1 drive with half the data, you can't get the other..

Your best bet is to GHOST the drive into a file, say put in a third drive, ghost the raid 0 to a FILE not a drive. Use the ghost explorer to copy out the files he needs.

Remove the raid 0, make it raid 1 or no raid at all and have him learn from is mistake

 

[RebateMonger]

One option is to attach those two RAID 0 drives to an identical RAID controller on a working Windows system and load the appropriate RAID drivers into the working Windows so that it can access the RAID array and grab the data.

Without more information on what your RAID controller is, there isn't much more specific I can add. Other than, next time, show him how to make periodic backups. You only use RAID 0 without backups if you don't mind losing all your data.