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DoughBOy

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A friend had his raptor Raid0 crash on him. Windows wont finish booting in any way, and any reinstall/repair has failed. I installed a third hard drive to boot a copy of windows. The raid shows up, but reports " f:\ is not accessible the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". The drive's properties are all zeros. Disk Managment shows a healty active disk of the right size. Banging my head on the wall, not sure what to try next. Any help would be appreciated.
 
The short answer is: Give up now. RAID 0 shouldn't be called RAID as its' not redundant in any form or fashion. Generally speaking when you lose a single drive in a RAID 0 array that data is gone.

Your buddy has two options:
1.) Cut his losses and move on.
2.) Take the drive to a data recovery specialist and start forking over the cash to recover the data.

I warn you option #2 is usually not cheap or even reasonable depending on how far gone the drive is. I use a RAID-0 array as my boot drive but I have no illusions about what will happen if a drive dies. (I've actually been down that road before.) I keep any important data on a seperate array which is a RAID 1 array which is actually redundant unlike RAID-0.
 
Dan_D said:
The short answer is: Give up now. RAID 0 shouldn't be called RAID as its' not redundant in any form or fashion. Generally speaking when you lose a single drive in a RAID 0 array that data is gone.

Your buddy has two options:
1.) Cut his losses and move on.
2.) Take the drive to a data recovery specialist and start forking over the cash to recover the data.

I warn you option #2 is usually not cheap or even reasonable depending on how far gone the drive is. I use a RAID-0 array as my boot drive but I have no illusions about what will happen if a drive dies. (I've actually been down that road before.) I keep any important data on a seperate array which is a RAID 1 array which is actually redundant unlike RAID-0.
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yeah his buddy should not have had important stuff on raid 0.

maybe the reason it is called raid 0 is because it adds zero redundancy

 
Both drives are working, thats why im being stubborn in trying to recover the data. If one or both were dead, I wouldnt even have tried. Was hoping there was a program that could grab whats readable from the drive.
 
I've never used their RAID stuff, but Runtimes other stuff has worked well for data recovery.

Their free trials will let ya know if it's gonna work before you purchase.
 
DoughBOy said:
Both drives are working, thats why im being stubborn in trying to recover the data. If one or both were dead, I wouldnt even have tried. Was hoping there was a program that could grab whats readable from the drive.
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When a RAID0 array is broken, good drive or bad, typically the data is lost. If you want redundancy you need RAID 1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10 etc.
 
Have you tried a typical data or partition recovery application? Take a gander at Active Parition Recovery.
 
Runtime also has a tool called "RAID Reconstructor", too. If their previous software, GetDataBack is any indication how effective and useful their software is, hopefully their RAID Reconstructor might be useful in your case, as well. :)
 
Thank You Very Much! Runtimes Raid Reconstructor did the trick. I was able to recover all the files my friend wanted. Thank You:D
 
My advice for him would be to disband his raid 0 array and run one fast disk instead.
 
I already had him buy a third drive to backup files, its the I was booting off. I personally avoid Raid0 for these reasons, but atleast now hell be ready for its next failure:rolleyes:
 
DoughBOy said:
I already had him buy a third drive to backup files, its the I was booting off. I personally avoid Raid0 for these reasons, but atleast now hell be ready for its next failure:rolleyes:
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thats why you don't use raid 0 for storage, only replaceable stuff.

 
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