Need Help SOrting Out A RAID Issue..

[practal]

Ive been running 2x160GB Seagate 7200.9 Drives in RAID 0 on the intergrated controller of a Gigabyte G33-DS2R for a few months now without a hitch. I just purchased 4Gb of RAM and installed it the other day. The system did not boot at first so I cleared the CMOS, probably still loading the timings for the old ram.

When it booted, I set-up the bios and forgot to activate RAID. The system booted and just frooze before loading windows. I realized what I had done, hit Ctrl Alt Del and activated it. Now when it boots it goes through the normal raid loading screen with a number 26 in the corner (numerous numbers pop up through out the loading process). When it finishes it says fails and show the first drive as Non-RAID and the second drive as RAID.

When I go into the RAID options I have 3 things selectable. I havent tried any of them as I dont want to accidently delete my information if its still present. Do I need to select one of those setting or is some other software available to recover it if its still present?

I dont have anything vital on the drives but Ive been playing Oblivion for about 80 hours now. Id much rather spend a few hours trying to recover the save then playing through it all again.

Thanks

 

[DonDon]

You prolly just need to add both drives back into a Raid together. Just pick the option to build a raid, add the 2 drives, and make sure it is set to be bootable. If the Raid configuration information is not corrupted, it should fire right up on reboot.

If it doesn't.........

I do not know of any free or inexpensive raid recovery programs if that does not work. There are some demo programs I saw on a quick Google search, but most of them make you buy it to save the data.

Don