Software that can mount a RAID0 Array in windows...

[newParadigm]

Basically, i was runing to IDE 80gb drives on the SATA RAID on my mobo with ide to SATA dadapters. The adapters had been giving me trouble, so i decdided, since\ RAID doesn't really gain you much with a desktop system, to just dithc the whole array and get a nice\ 200gb sata HDD.

I got the drive, ghosted my os without a problem, but the sata adapters are now compltely broken, so i cant access the data on the array. I know there are programs that will make a raw image of a RAID array, and then allow you to extract the data you want from it, but tis there a simple way to mount a RAID0 array in windows with a peice of software?

Cliffs
1) RAID Card is broken
2) Need to get some files off the RAID array, onto my new HDD
3) Need a proggram that will allow me to mount the raid arra in windows, so i can do the above.

Please help!!!

~new

 

[CreativeTom]

What OS>>??

 

[newParadigm]

Windoze XP

 

[Zepper]

What brand/model of chip was controlling your RAID array? You might be able to buy a PCI RAID card with the same company's chip and get it to work.
. I know that XP's storage management can do striping w/o any special hardware but I doubt it will be able to pick up on some other striping - have to do from scratch.

.bh.

 

[Concillian]

I think there is nothing you can do short of replacing your RAID card or borrowing someone else's.

This is one (rather major) of the pitfalls of hardware RAID. And why backups are important even if you are using RAID 5 or RAID 1.

 

[JDCentral]

Yeah... many RAID cards don't completely support the RAID standard - some like to do things their own way... so once a RAID controller goes, many times I've found that only the same model RAID controller will read/write to the drives.

 

[newParadigm]

Got it fixed.

I used a program called RaidReconstructor from runtime software that can analyze two drives that previously had RAID0 (also works for RAID5) to reconstruct the data to a contiguous image (ie it de-striped it). Then i used GetDataBack for NTFS from the same company to recover the files. Got everything back, im very happy.

Also, I will be offering the two 80gb drives on FS/T, so if anyone who was following this thread sees this and needs some drives, pop me a PM.

~new