Intel Matrix storage manager has formatted 2 of my drives!?

fobose · 26 May 2009 at 12:58

Let me start by saying I am running version 8.5 of the intel matrix storage manager.

A friend of mine said in the latest version he was able to modify his RAID 1 array size, so I thought I would check to see if I had the option on my version.

All I did was right click on my 640GB RAID 1 array, and select "modify" and had a look around, but didn't click on next or finish.

I then noticed that my two stand alone seagate 500GB drives are missing from My computer, and once I entered disk management I had 2 drives appear as "uninitalized".

What the hell?

fobose · 26 May 2009 at 13:12

Is there any reason why this would have happened though? I have got "GetDataBack for NTFS" from a few years ago when I accidently delete the wrong parition, so I will give that a go first as I had good results with it before.

fobose · 26 May 2009 at 13:26

Ah, just realised what testdisk can do. Having a play with it now thanks.

fobose · 26 May 2009 at 14:16

No luck, it only finds a 40GB parition to recover. Probably my 2-3 year old windows partition. I need it to recover the 465GB single partition I had on each drive

fobose · 27 May 2009 at 11:58

In the end I had to use GetDataBack for NTFS to recover all my files, which like before has worked a treat. Wont be loading up the intel matrix storage console for a while thats for sure!