RAID 0 Failed

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I recently flashed my BIOS but due to an unknown problem with my PSU/Motherboard my pc crashed as my pc rebooted after inastalling the BIOS update. I had my 2 HDD in RAID 0, nedless to say I lost everything.

Is there any way i can recover anthing from my HDD? I was stupid enough no to back everything up before i went about flashing my BIOS.
 
The disks shouldn't have been corrupted just by a reboot, the data should still be there and you should be able to reconfigure the BIOS to the previous settings. I suspect all that's happened is that the new BIOS has set itself to default and not enabled RAID in the same way.

You probably just need to to enter the BIOS, enable RAID, then reboot and enter the RAID controller BIOS to enable RAID 0.

Andi.
 
restore from your backup and +1 to what andicole0 said, chances are it's all fine
 
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bledd. said:
restore from your backup and +1 to what andicole0 said, chances are it's all fine
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Why do you assume people back stuff up when using raid 0? I mean, what you're saying is just rubbing it in if someone doesn't have one, I'm pretty sure someone is smart enough to restore his backup himself if the raid fails... I've moved my stripe over 3 mainboards now and nothing went wrong, a backup would mean 500 gb of wasted data for 4 years now. Besides, most often hdd's show very recognizable signs of failing before failing completely. Usually it's still possible to copy the whole content while it's failing before it's completely failed. I've had this happen many many times when hdd's die due to age/heavy usage.

But as you guys said, it really shouldn't fail by a power loss, just set you controller to raid mode again and it should pick up on it.
 
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Why wouldn't you backup, unless you just didn't care?

I never had a raid0 fail either, but I still backed up.

That's like saying, why wear a seatbelt
 
bledd. said:
Why wouldn't you backup, unless you just didn't care?

I never had a raid0 fail either, but I still backed up.

That's like saying, why wear a seatbelt
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Hdd's cost money. I'd have to spend at least 200€ to backup my 3640 gb of data... Not mentioning the hassle to set it up ( would have to be an external solution as I've maxed out all sata power plugs and sata data connections in my pc. )
A seatbelt is required by law ( I probably wouldn't always wear it otherwise) and comes for free with the car.

Backing data up costs money.
Wearing a seatbelt is free, not wearing it is risking a fine.

I fully understand your point and that it's a risk, the risk is relatively small though. For home users, do you really want to spend 50 quid on something that might happen potentially ( or in my case far more) ?
 
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snowdog said:
Hdd's cost money. I'd have to spend at least 200€ to backup my 3640 gb of data... Not mentioning the hassle to set it up ( would have to be an external solution as I've maxed out all sata power plugs and sata data connections in my pc. )
A seatbelt is required by law ( I probably wouldn't always wear it otherwise) and comes for free with the car.

Backing data up costs money.
Wearing a seatbelt is free, not wearing it is risking a fine.

I fully understand your point and that it's a risk, the risk is relatively small though. For home users, do you really want to spend 50 quid on something that might happen potentially ( or in my case far more) ?
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you probably spend £40 a month on home insurance..... for something that might never happen?

If you can afford a PC and an internet connection you can afford £50 for a backup drive...

anyone reading this thread BACK UP YOUR DATA... unless you dont want it...

also you are protecting against accidently deleting (or corrupting) a file, not jsut a drive failure..
 
snowdog said:
Hdd's cost money. I'd have to spend at least 200€ to backup my 3640 gb of data... Not mentioning the hassle to set it up ( would have to be an external solution as I've maxed out all sata power plugs and sata data connections in my pc. )
A seatbelt is required by law ( I probably wouldn't always wear it otherwise) and comes for free with the car.

Backing data up costs money.
Wearing a seatbelt is free, not wearing it is risking a fine.

I fully understand your point and that it's a risk, the risk is relatively small though. For home users, do you really want to spend 50 quid on something that might happen potentially ( or in my case far more) ?
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I wear the seatbelt cause it just might save my life.

I backup my data because it's priceless - 80gb of photos from 2001 on alone is worth the backup. If you really care about your data then the price is pretty much irrelevant - especially with the prices of a new 1tb external drive being so low.
 
Xon said:
I wear the seatbelt cause it just might save my life.

I backup my data because it's priceless - 80gb of photos from 2001 on alone is worth the backup. If you really care about your data then the price is pretty much irrelevant - especially with the prices of a new 1tb external drive being so low.
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Fair enough.

edscdk said:
you probably spend £40 a month on home insurance..... for something that might never happen?
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I don't, parents do, and it's certainly not 40 per month, I wouldn't take it for 40 either unless I had something valuable in my home. I've got better things to spend 480 quid per year on.
If you can afford a PC and an internet connection you can afford £50 for a backup drive...
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Parents pay for internet. I have the money but I'd rather spend it on other things than my pc. I literally don't know anyone in person who backs up all his data but my dad, but that's a ( doing it for the) company.
anyone reading this thread BACK UP YOUR DATA... unless you dont want it...

also you are protecting against accidently deleting (or corrupting) a file, not jsut a drive failure..
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Windows backup is there for that, due to a bug in the xfire automatic updater it removes my screenshots when updating, I just RMB the folder and restore to an older version, that works fine against accidental deleting or corruption. It's something that was oddly enabled automatically in win7 and I have no clue how to disable it.
 
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