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RyanVM

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As my signature says, I've got a 558GB RAID10 array on my Si3114r5 controller. I restarted my computer today after installing the new Windows security updates and now the RAID BIOS is saying that I've got an invalid array. What can I do to recover the data? HELP!
 
Yeah, I'm well aware. I was planning on getting a 500GB hard drive that I could do periodic backups to once I could afford it. But that doesn't answer my question. I find it very hard to believe that the data is beyond recovery.
 
Maybe the RAID card went bad. You could try replacing it with the exact same model card (Si3114r5).
 
It's onboard. I'm going to try unhooking one drive to see if maybe some metadata on one of the drives got corrupted. Maybe if I unhook the right drive, it'll kick into recovery mode and let me access the data.
 
I can't try it until this weekend. It's finals week for me (yeah, of all the times for this to happen :mad: )
 
Yeah, I'm not holding out much hope. What really sucks is that I was planning on just such a contingency but just couldn't afford the backup drive yet :(
 
Is the error that the array is damaged or that it doesn't exist? You may be able to remove the mirror and boot then rebuild.

A while back I had a raid 1 failure after an install of somethig, don't recall what. I removed a drive from the mirror, figured out which drive I could boot from. Once booted I rebuilt the array.

Unless you have had a coincidental hardware failure, I doubt that you've actually lost any data.
 
Well, the array was still bad with one drive unhooked (I tried unhooking each drive one by one) :(

I'm wondering about hooking the drives up to the the nForce SATA controller and trying to recover the data that way (if I had two of the striped drives hooked up, maybe RAID0 recovery software might work?)
 
I'm going to call a few other data recovery places tomorrow. If I can find somewhere that'll do it for a few hundred bucks, I'm going to strongly consider sending my drives to them.
 
I'm happy to say that File Scavenger 3.0 along with some pure dumb luck has allowed me to recover a lot of my data, though there has been some corruption along the way. Most importantly, I was able to recover all of my documents/pictures which were otherwise irreplaceable :)
 
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