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phusion

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alright so i have two western digital wd800jb's in a raid0 array using the onboard highpoint HPT374 on my Epox 8k9a3+

the other day my windows just refused to boot, it would hang.

so i popped in a 3rd harddrive (some maxtor 80gb) and loaded windows xp onto that.

i installed my raid drivers and now i'm at the point where i can see the drives in explorer, but there is no volume information, it just lists both partitions on the raid array but when i try to access the drive it says 'The device is not connected'

i can't chkdsk them.

in the windows installation program, it did list the volume size of each partition properly, but listed the filesystem as "Unknown"

can anyone recommend software that could help me recover data on these drives?

thanks for any help
 
Deleting the array definition only removes the stripeset information. The data on the drives is still there. You need to first run one of the data recovery tools listed in the FAQ while the array is still live as once you delete it most of the recovery tools will not run properly. After deletion you would have to recreate the array with the controller to the exact same specs as the original in order to have a shot of recovering data. I believe highpoint offers a utility with which you can reinitialize broken stripesets provided you've got the settings. Whether or not it works is anyone's guess.
 
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