I screwed up.... help me

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I seemed to have screwed up pretty royal.

I just recently started a new build. I have a RAID 0 array on 2 Samsung 80 gig drives, and was using the Nvidia SATA setup on my Asus K8N-E. (Nforce 3)

I intended to just put the drives in my new build ( Abit AN8 Nforce4) connect them to the Nvidia SATA connectors and do a driver uninstall/reinstall.

My array was partitioned into two drives.

I put the drives in fired em up. The RAID manager found the array healthy, but then Im not sure how, but my Windows install got corrupted. I never got a full boot. So, I decided to just do a Windows reinstall, get back in, back everything up, and then format and reinstall fresh.

For some reason, when Windows reinstalled, it installed on a single drive, not on the array.

So now, I can boot to that particular install, but it shows up as 40 gig drive.

Or, I can boot using an IDE drive with Windows on it, the array shows up as the full 160 gig in the BIOS RAID manager, but in Windows, the primary partition cannot be accessed. I can see it, but it tells me the data format is RAW.

I have therefore lost all of the data on that partition.

So now, finally, my question. Is there any way that I might be able to recover the lost data off of the partition.

Any advice is welcome.

Thank You
 
RAID 0 strips your data and distributes it over two drives. Unless you can make a full recovery of your original configuration, there's little to no hope of recovering.

Best is to start over, delete the configuration, reconfigure, reinstall Windows.
 
The best advice anyone can give you is in the future is backup before moving to a new system.There is always an element or error murphys law comes to mind as well. :(
 
Ive been able to recover some of my data with a recovery software. Now starts the arduous task of rebuilding my directories and sorting through all of the crap it finds.
 
huh.

I couldn't request Windows do an error check on the partition, but after a few boots, it did its own. Ran for about a half of an hour, and recovered 85% of my data by itself.

yayaya
 
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