partition gone?

[vexvegaz]

hello,

im in need of some help regarding a problem im having after reinstall of windows xp
prior to the reinstall i had a 2 wd 160sata drives in raid-0 config 1 part of the partition is used for primary windows installation and the other part used for backup, now..after reinstalling windows w/ reformat i lost access to the second partition and windows xp doesnt even recognize the file system(ntfs). my question is there any way to recover the second partition? i have several files in it that i really need.


thanks in advance and pc specs are in my sig

[djnes]

There are some tools here that may help you:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads38.html

But as a future advice post, you should have these things backed up if they are on a RAID0 array. I could rant and rave about how RAID0 is useless, but that's been done a million times on here. If you do insist on using RAID0 in the future and buying the hype, ALWAYS keep good backups of your important data.

[vexvegaz]

preciate that.

" I could rant and rave about how RAID0 is useless"

can u please elaborate? i thought n also noticed the speed increas in disc access with raid 0? or am i thinkin raid1?

[djnes]

RAID1 isn't designed for performance, it's drive mirroring, meaning data is written to both drives, giving you an online backup, should a hard drive fail.

RAID0 was designed for performance, but it doesn't deliver. What you think is a performance increase is due to one of two things....placebo effect, or you are using a synthetic benchmark. In real world tests, RAID0 doesn't give any performance benefit, and often can decrease overall Windows performance because the seek times increase.

Many of use about a year ago or more, participated in a range of tests, such as loading a specific level in a game, and timing it with a stopwatch. There's no real difference, and the result was most of us who had been using RAID0 changed our configs. I had two Raptors in RAID0 thinking I had this awesome combo. After doing the testing, I was shocked to find I was getting no gain, compared to using just one Raptor. I ended up putting my second Raptor in a second machine.

Add to all of this the fact RAID0 isn't real reliable, since you lose all of the data if just one drive dies, it's just not worth it. I use my Raptor as C, and a 120 GB drive for D. I use ghost to back up an image to a .gho file on the 120 GB drive, and I use MS Sync Toy to back up my files in the mean time.

[vexvegaz]

used the r-studio that i found at the link u gave me and got the nessary files recovered.

thanks you

as far as the whole raid 0 thing...wow jus wow. thanks for the info

ill do a personal test as soon as im all up and running and if ur right raid 0 is gone

thanks again

[djnes]

That's the best way. People to this day will still argue about this, even if links are posted. If you do your own testing, then you can make up your own mind.

As for your data, I'm glad you got it back. Some of those tools have helped me out in the past.