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Data loss in RAID 0

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jovin6

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My first post to this forum, but I really need advice and I've already tried elsewhere, so here goes:

I was messing around with an app meant to get my A64 to throttle down, and it did something weird with my multiplier so I had to go back into the BIOS to reset it correctly. In the process I accidentally disabled my RAID controller (yes, I know, I'm a retard), and when I turned it back on the info for my partition was gone. I tried creating a new RAID 0 partition with the same properties as the old one and without erasing any of the information on the drives, but my controller wouldn't let me specifiy the new partition as bootable and I could never get past the screen where Windows asks whether you want safe mode or normal mode. On the fifth or sixth run-through I did something even more retarded: I accidentally told my controller to clear the data on the drives. Needless to say, my compy no longer boots at all. If I can get these drives hooked up to another computer with a SATA RAID controller, is there some way that I can put the stripes back together into coherent files and save my data without the original MBR (which I assume is now lost)? Maybe there's some software out there capable of doing that?
 
Using another controller to recover the data will more than likely screw things up further. Unless you use exactly the same controller chipset, you will definately cause more problems.
 
No...I think your screwed. RAID 0 is great until you lose a byte and then it's toast. Do you have a backup of your RAID 0 array? If so you can recreate the array.
 
There are professional companies that can probably recover your data, but you're looking at thousands of dollars to do it. Most likely it's gone. Wave to it, hold a funeral, move on.
 
It's funny how in other threads people will still argue that RAID0 doesn't increase your risk of data loss. Not sure why some still argue in favor of RAID0 at all, but anyhoo. Sorry about your data, but it sounds like it's gone.
 
I've already known that using RAID 0 doubles your risk of data loss. Furthermore, a corrupted RAID 0 array makes it exponentially more difficult to recover data than even a non-RAID setup, let alone any level of RAID which provides redundancy and/or mirroring.
 
Telling it to clear the data was basically like deleting the partition in Windows.

Your best option at this point is to start rebuilding your OS and hope you can recover the data from backups or other locations.
 
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