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My old motherboard died on me so I got a new GA P55 UD4 and an i5 to replace it, I had two HDD's on Raid 0 Stripe on my old motherboard and I stupidly set it up again on the new motherboard and now all my datas gone! :((

It had to be the ones with all my pictures from the last 6 or so years!

Any ideas on how to get the data back? Software, if so which one? Or will I need to send them both off to one of those money shafting so called specilists?

Any help would be appreciated as I'm having kittens at the moment.

Thanks,
DJ.
 
Best bet would be to use the same raid chips as were on your old motherboard.

I guess your new motherboard is using different raid setup and chips hence why you have not been able to use the drives

Maybe you can find out the raid details of your old board, find a duplicate of that and try to recover that way. Im uncertain how much damage has been done by your setting up a new raid on top of the old, I would guess that will not be easily recoverable if at all
 
TestDisk might work.

As long as the binary data itself still exists it is possible to recover. If you have only lost the file table etc then you should be in luck, I am not sure how to use TestDisk to recover info lost in a raid setup but it should be possible.
 
There is software that can recover data from RAID0 discs based on common controllers but I don't know of a free version and its fairly technical to setup.

Unless you can find another of the same board (and even between revisions of the controller you can lose compatibility) or another board with the same controller its going to be costly. If you've written over the discs already it will be even harder/more costly to recover any data.
 
What sata/raid controller did your old mobo have ?

I moved my raid 0 without any problems from intel ich6r to ich7r, the new mobo detected a stripe as soon as I turned on the RAID function...

Buy a board with the same raid controller...

Unless
I stupidly set it up again
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You mean you've created a new stripe on the new mainboard, rather than just enabling the raid and making it pick up the old one ? Or formatted/created a partition on the drives in windows that are striped but with the raid function disabled ?

What did you do precisely from the moment you plugged the hdd's into your new mainboard ? What was your old mainboard and if it had multiple sata controllers, which one was the stripe on ?
Your new mainboard has as much as 3 ( raid capable) sata controllers, which one did you try to use ( the P55 one, the Gigabyte one, or the JMB362 ) ?
 
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snowdog said:
What sata/raid controller did your old mobo have ?

I moved my raid 0 without any problems from intel ich6r to ich7r, the new mobo detected a stripe as soon as I turned on the RAID function...

Buy a board with the same raid controller...

Unless

You mean you've created a new stripe on the new mainboard, rather than just enabling the raid and making it pick up the old one ? Or formatted/created a partition on the drives in windows that are striped but with the raid function disabled ?

What did you do precisely from the moment you plugged the hdd's into your new mainboard ? What was your old mainboard and if it had multiple sata controllers, which one was the stripe on ?
Your new mainboard has as much as 3 ( raid capable) sata controllers, which one did you try to use ( the P55 one, the Gigabyte one, or the JMB362 ) ?
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Yes I started up the new RAID0 on the new board. I went into Bios, and enabled the GSata (from what I remember) to RAID/IDE and then on the RAID screen pressed CTRL+G and created a new raid with both disks.

My old board was a Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe.

It's not looking good for me is it? :(

Also to run some recovery software I would have to enable it in windows to see the disk would I not?

Thanks again,
Dan.
 
Ok, it's not looking good then, I can't really help you any more as I don't think you can get to the data in any easy way because you created a new stripe :(. Perhaps some software or experts can do it, but I wouldn't know.
 
I can offer a company that can recover the data but its VERY expensive, depends on how much you value 6 years of photos kroll on track is the company name, pricey but effective at recovering data.
 
If you've written a new stripe over the top of the discs that massive reduces the chances of getting the data back :( a lot of the every day data recovery companies won't be able to manage it either... your looking at a fair few quid and a reputable high end recovery company.

And if you do want to try and get it back for goodness sake stop using the discs right now.
 
snowdog said:
Ok, it's not looking good then, I can't really help you any more as I don't think you can get to the data in any easy way because you created a new stripe :(. Perhaps some software or experts can do it, but I wouldn't know.
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Thanks for the help anyway. :)

EnderXi said:
I can offer a company that can recover the data but its VERY expensive, depends on how much you value 6 years of photos kroll on track is the company name, pricey but effective at recovering data.
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I've got an idea of how much you've mentioned and I'd rather start again if I'm honest, but thank you.

Rroff said:
If you've written a new stripe over the top of the discs that massive reduces the chances of getting the data back :( a lot of the every day data recovery companies won't be able to manage it either... your looking at a fair few quid and a reputable high end recovery company.

And if you do want to try and get it back for goodness sake stop using the discs right now.
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I couldn't get anything back off of the RAID disks, buttttttt I remembered I used to have a "Backup" folder my other 1TB HDD with just "My Documents" in it - I had deleted it, but I remembered it was there.

Downloaded Recuva.com and it recovered all the files, I've got to sort through 26,000 files to structure the folders again but it's a massive relief if I'm honest.

So thank you for all the help. :)
DJ.
 
JonJ678 said:
Backups. Always the way forward.
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Except when you're low on cash, it's quite a lot of money, doubling the capacity for backups... Or getting a good raid controller + 1 extra hdd that would make raid 5 or so worthwhile.
 
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That's true. It's rare to have a high volume of valuable data though, I think all the work I've ever produced would fit on a cd. An awful lot of photos will fit on a 500gb hard drive. I've got a lot of data that isn't backed up as the inconvenience of replacing it is less than the cost of backing it up. In contrast my uni work actually has an offsite backup as well as local as I'm screwed if I lose it.

Six years of emotionally valuable photos has got to be worth the cost of a few DVDs.

Raid 5 doesn't need a controller if it's for storage, as performance of the array doesn't really matter. Raid is not a backup either, but I do take your point really.
 
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