Data Recovery Tools?

[Ethereal]

Ok, so I have a question. I had two drives (both Maxtor 160 GB) hooked up in Raid 0, and for some reason started getting a "Failure reading disk, press ctrl-alt-del", or some similar error the other day. Put in the windows Cd to reinstall and once we got to examining the disk, it sat there for over 45 mins. This is usually a much quicker task since I reinstalled windows the other day and it took a total of about 30 mins. So I knew something was up. I did some troubled shooting and in the end, deleted the raid array, recreated it and started to write zeros to the drive. I got to about 3% when my G/F calls and says she needs some files on the drive. Is there any software that will recover files from these drives? I've check some Data recovery places that specialize in business environments and they can do it, but it will cost on average $1500-$2000. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance all.

 

[drizzt81]

suggestions:
1. make images of the current state of the drives before doing anything else
2. try Runtime's Raid reconstructor (www.runtime.org)