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urgent Need hellp on RAID

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kelvin1704

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I run windows 2000 and I run raid on Abit KT7-Raid.

Now, I am moving my raid harddisk to another system. The other system use a PCI raid card.

The problem is, it doesn't recognize my raid drive anymore.
a) Can anyone guide me what I should do?
b) What is 'Write Signature', I have press this in my new system, does that corrupt my original Raid data?
 
It is my understanding that that wouldn't be possible. The only time you can actually unplug harddrives from a raid setup and then plug them back in and have them fucntioning without have to rebuild the raid setup would be to plug them into the same controller they were in, and possibly even in the same order. So I think you will have to rebuild the raid setup to use them with the new card you have.
 
oh my god, then i have lost all my data then..

cause I reinstall my old system without the raid drive..

is there anyway i can save my data?
 
Put the Raid drives back in the original system along with another drive not in the array and copy the data.
 
i do have another drive in my rig..

the problem is, the RAID drive is not assign a drive.
The drive is detected, and I tried to assign a drive letter to it. It just said drive is not formated.
 
On the system the drives were in originally, did you delete that array in the BIOS? Or did you just pull the drives out?

If you just pulled the drives out, then I don't see any reason why they should not work when just plugging them in. I have done this myself while switching cases. Make sure they're plugged into the original cable/Primary/slave combination they were before. Then check and make sure the card is recognizing them (just make sure you don't rebuild or repair array - that will make data go bye-bye). If you're sure everything is setup correctly then what is telling you the drive is not formatted and what isn't giving it a drive letter? I presume Windows 2000 but I've put unformatted drives into it and it has always assigned a letter to it automatically (although it would say drive not formatted until I formatted).

If you delelted the array and then pulled the drives - you're screwed. I don't know of a way to recover the data easily. You might have to put the drives together, rebuild the array, then purchase something like Powerquests Lost & Found and hope that it can recover as much data as possible. If this is what you did make sure you use the drives as little as possible! If you use them a lot the drive will potentially write over what you're trying to recover - making it gone forever.

Give us an update!
 
Oh my god.

I have pull the bios battery out for my old rig. Then I am pretty sure it has delete it. sigh...

Alright, can you guide me step by step how can i recover the data i have? (Including how to rebuild the raid and stuff which will lead to as minimun usage as possible. Do i need to put the drive in the same manner as before? i mean IDE 3 and 4. (actually i dun remember which one is which one)
 
well, its all personal stuff.

It just depend on how much it will cost.

Can someone help me to tell me how to extract it myself.
I don't think there is such an service available in malaysia
 
I'm not sure it's possible since you have cleared your CMOS and therefore your RAID array information. Good luck though. =(
 
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