Failed RAID 0 !?

zenusic5zenusic5 Metro Atlanta
edited January 2004 in Hardware
Can data from a RAID 0 be recovered? One physical drive failed and now the HPT doesn't recognize the array.

I'd like to access the drives individually if possible and recover some data.

Thanks,

ben

Comments

  • verselloversello New
    edited December 2003
    Data in RAID 0 can be recovered but unfortunately unless you know how, it's a very costly method.
  • stoopidstoopid Albany, NY New
    edited December 2003
    Nope, raid1 is the redundancy kind you can restore from the second disk ... in raid0 it's simply 2 drives acting as one.

    If you have a ghost image you will need to restore from that, otherwise you're SOL. :(

    **bumped heads with versello :p **
  • citrixmetacitrixmeta Montreal, Quebec Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    well, raid 0 CAN be recovered to a level..

    in my scenario something went wrong with my raid controller..
    i booted my pc and no array was defined (all i saw was 4 x 120gb drives, no array)

    i went into the bios, rebuilt the raid 0 (it warned meh that i would lose my data)


    booted into windows using a seprate drive.

    "DO NOT FORMAT THE ARRAY IN WINDOWS!!" dont touch that array.


    get an app called GETDATA BACK FOR NTFS, and let it scan that drive for 2 hours, guess what.. i got every single data back.

    give it a shot, might work for ya,.
  • JPPJPP Stuttgart Germany
    edited January 2004
    To assure if the harddrives are ok you can check each HDD using the sofware from the drive manufacturer. Normaly this should not affect the data content of the drive. Read the *.txt files carefully before.
    JPP
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