Raid array dead?! Advice needed...

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Not sure what has happened on my machine but it looks like my raid array has gone to pot...

When booting I get the following message:

At bios checks it flashes "Problem with raid array: 1"
Then when it tries to boot from th array it says:

Searching for boot record from BBS-0 [FT 378 ARY 1] ... not found

Reboot and select a proper boot device.


It looks like the master boot record on the array is corrupt or somthing which really isnt good. I am assuming at this point I will have to rebuild the array/format/re-install system unless anyone has some ideas?


I was trying to boot the computer with a boot disk up to see if I could access the array...I wouldnt mind geting some data off it if at all possible! Not sure how to go about this though. I have 4 hdd's 2 which are in the raid0 on FAT (i cant remember if that is totally correct) and another 2 that are seperate NTFS sata drives.

Is there a way i can boot form a cd or somthing so i can at least access the data on all these drives? I tried using DSL (Damn Small Linux) from a cd but dont know how to access my hdd's once booted. I though it would mount them for me but I cannot see the drives.
 
hurrah!

it actually worked :D

I went into the RAID setup and deleted the array but didnt deleted the data. I kept note of the RAID0 specifics such as stripe size so when I created the array again I could use exactly the same settings.
After rebulding the array I coule log on to my OS. What joy, I can access the files and back them up immediately :)

Your information is worth a sticky I think. It could save a lot of heart ache!!

:D
 
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