Raid 0 data recovery?

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loki7

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Title isn't as bad as it sounds, but one of my older work computers wont POST, I've narrowed it down to CPU or mobo. It has two hard drives in raid 0 via on-board Intel raid controller (I don't why it's in raid 0, it was a former employee's previous computer). The two drives should be healthy, but I have no other Intel raid controller enabled mobos around, and my personal computer is nForce.

Is there a bootable recovery program or such that can read multiple raid controllers, just to browse the contents of the raid 0? I don't care about the operating system and applications, I just want to move some contents of the drive to a USB drive or network folder so I can delete the raid.
 
I convinced my boss to buy Raid Reconstructor software bundle (RR, GetDataBack, CN), and I gotta say these programs are sweet and work as advertised.

Detected my raid 0 no problems on a mobo without a raid controller, created a virtual image and Captain Nemo let me browse the contents and make back ups. Exactly what I was looking for.
 
Cheers! Sorry i've not seen this earlier, so the next tip won't be of help to you anymore. But perhaps other people looking via google may find this interesting:

For others looking for a similar but free solution, often simply using Ubuntu livecd would work to access your onboard RAID and even some hardware RAIDs, with the disks being attached to a normal SATA controller without RAID enabled.

Once booted Ubuntu, all you would need to do is click Places menu, click home. In the window that opens, your RAID-array should be listed on the left panel, probably like "... GB filesystem" or by name instead if you've given it one. Clicking on it should reveal your data and allow you to transfer over the network or to another local disk.

This should work without having to install anything; just the livecd. It's a nice tip for anyone wanting to recover Windows onboard RAID arrays.
 
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