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by **Gecko** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:26 pm

Does anyone know any way to recover data from a SATA raid level 0 striped set?

Both drives spin up and are recognized in the BIOS and by the raid controller
but I suspect that one of the drives has a corrupted partition or NTFS table.
The error I’m getting after windows starts to load is “unmountable boot volume”

Can I connect an IDE drive to the system, load windows XP, load the raid drivers
then install a recovery program and recover the data from the SATA drives that way?

Will windows and therefore the recovery program recognize the striped array setup?

by **PCguy** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:45 pm

I dont see why it wouldnt work.

Take a look at this:

http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm

by **Gecko** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:21 pm

by **Gecko** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:26 pm

by **PCguy** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:55 pm

Nope, I'm just happy to help.

Good stuff. It's always nice when you look like a hero.

Let me know if you get all the data back.

by **Gecko** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:04 pm

I was able to recover the whole thing to an empty network drive.
I disconnected the two raid drives and installed a new SATA drive.
By pure luck it is the same drive model as the other two.
I used Drive Image to image from the network drive to the single SATA drive.
Rebooted and windows loaded :shock:

I checked and all their data was there.
I changed the array setup to raid 1 using one of the other drives.
Once it was copied I swapped out my drive put the copied drive as first and let it copy to their other drive.
Booted right up no problems, it’s running a scandisk for bad sectors right now should be done by morning.
The bonus is mine :mrgreen:

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