Restoring Data from RAID0 drive's.

NachT

NachT

NachT

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Hi there!

Long story short, I have an evga 680i with 2 RAID0 hard drives for the system drive. The evga board went pop, I have no backup of my system drive. Evga RMA are hopless and have had my motherboard for over 2 weeks now and wont answer my emails.
So I bought an Asus board.

Is it possible to get my data ( mainly I would only want my firefox bookmarks... ) from my 2 striped disks?


From my understanding, it's not possible to stick 2 already raided drives onto a different raid controller? And as it's a different board I suspect I will not be able to do this?

Is there any apps that would allow me to retrive, or merge the 2 drives onto 1 drive type of thing so I can get my bookmarks back?


Cheers :)
 
If your new board has onboard RAID by the same vendor i.e. Intel Matrix, plug it in, enable RAID in bios and you might get away with it, as the array info is stored on the disks.

I've reset CMOS etc loads of times on systems with RAID0 sets and it always picks it up
 
No it's very unlikely that you'll be able to resurrect the array to what it was on a different controller. However recovery software might be able to have a go and the information might be on one of the disks?
 
You might try booting with a Linux LiveCD, Linux will recognize many different BIOS RAID signatures and may be able to mount the RAID set regardless of the chipset in use. (No guarantees though.) It would need a bit of pratting about to see if this will work for you (but suffice it to say that I've done this in the past.) If you're interested in trying I can try post a few more specific suggestions.
 
If its an Intel matrix Raid then theres a good chance you can just hook the drives up and it will work.
If its not, your pretty much screwed :(
 
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