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Restoring RAID 0 array after format?

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amk320

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I had some problems with my Windows 7 files getting corrupted on my system drive. I unplugged my two 1TB drives in RAID 0 during this process, and had to restore BIOS defaults. The result is that my disks are out of RAID 0, and inaccessible from Windows due to being in unrecognized format.

The problem is that when I set the BIOS back to RAID, Windows 7 won't start. There's a BSOD involved also.

How can I restore my RAID 0? Or at least get the data off the drives?
 
Generally you'll need to install the drivers for your RAID controller before switching the BIOS back to RAID, or Windows will pull a croaker on boot. Pretty sure that's your problem.
 
If you've got a secondary SATA controller (Marvell, Jmicron and the like) you could plug your windows drive on it.
 
Are the w7 system files on the RAID0 disks?

Are all the drives connected to the same chipset?

AMD/Intel?

Was the corruption problem with these drives?

You haven't really given us much info.

PSSSS.....I just wanted to add....if you formatted the RAID discs there's no chance of recovery.
 
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Old Hippie said:
Are the w7 system files on the RAID0 disks?

Are all the drives connected to the same chipset?

AMD/Intel?

Was the corruption problem with these drives?

You haven't really given us much info.

PSSSS.....I just wanted to add....if you formatted the RAID discs there's no chance of recovery.
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From one old timer to another, that last statement unfortunately is not true. I do forensics and can recover almost any array, whether formatted or not, and unless you low level secure formatted it, your data is still there.

As an example, R-Studio can grab your drives and reconstruct the raid-0 as well as recover the data from them.
 
OBWANDO said:
From one old timer to another, that last statement unfortunately is not true. I do forensics and can recover almost any array, whether formatted or not, and unless you low level secure formatted it, your data is still there.

As an example, R-Studio can grab your drives and reconstruct the raid-0 as well as recover the data from them.
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I have seen some RAID0 consumer success stories and I know the pros have done it for a long time but I've also seen plenty of consumer failures.

And while you are correct the key word in this forum is usually "free". :)

If the OP ever comes back maybe it won't even have to go that far. :D
 
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