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Array issues- Rebuilding?

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RanceJustice

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Hello all. Well, up until today I've been operating on a nice Raid0 setup: Two SATA Seagate 7200.7 160gb 8mb cache controlled by a Promise FastTrak TX2. I was playing BF2, get a BSOD I could read that was something like "fault in non paged area" and then boom. Reboot. My raid controller tells me that the array is offline. Going into the controller's bios/setup, it tells me that one of my drives appears go be fine, but the other is either malfunctioning or disconnected, therefore the array is offline. I can't seem to redesignate the offline drive, nor can I use the repair array function (says its not available).

Do I need to delete the array and redefine it to work again, provided one of my drives isn't dead? I did something like this before on the phone with a tech from Promise, but it was awhile ago. After the procedure everything booted normally and no data was lost. I'd like to do this again if possible, but I am heasitent as I fear the wrong move will build the array not as it was before and all will be lost.

Thanks for your help.
 
Update: Seatools diagnostics found 2 bad sectors on one of the drives, causing it to fail the test. Is this enough to totally 'break" the drive? Seems so.. but I'd like to find a way to recover my data. Can I still try to remap the array?
 
Anyone? Can someone at least suggest some tools that will help me extract data from my drives? I see a bunch that work on non-RAIDed drives on the ultimate boot CD in the sticky, but I'm having difficulty finding some that would work on something in RAID0
 
You have discovered the one major drawback to RAID0 setups, loss of one drive usually means you have lost *all* data. You can try data recovery tools mentioned in the sticky, but your mileage will vary.
 
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