ABIT KT7A Raid Drive Recoverable

rborhara

Hi,

I had 2 x IBM 120GB HDDs, I know one was playing up, but didnt change it.
However when trying to find out which one playing up, I plugged the power into the HDD while the pc was switched on and Saw a Spark,
Eeventually the PC switched backed on. Then I managed to get the Abit Kt7A Raid top see the RAID drives and it recognises it as being one RAID. however when I try and boot off it it says read error, The raid had a Bootable Windows OS on it.
Can anyone suggest anything to try or have I fried the 220 odd GB of data (my lifes work).

Is there any software where I can move the 2 IBM HDD to an ordinary PC and get it to turn the 2 iDE drives into a raid and let me read the data from it.

ml_man

Tuff one.

rborhara

ml_man wrote:

Tuff one.

Can i Add that it seems somehow that the raid is broken, and Ive got the PC to recognise both drives, but when it comes to boot from the drive then it comes up with read error has a occured, Is there a way of recreating the raid drive without losing the data

Nebulous

Not that I know of. I used raid~0 for quite sometime until 1 of the drives failed. Recreating the array consists of fdisk and formatting the drives, then re-installing the raid drivers and the os. You'll lose evrything.

Once a drive goes bad in raid~0, you might as well accept the loss and start over. In raid~0-1 you can recover the data because it writes to both drives, so if one drive fails your stuff is still safe. In Raid~0 it's a total loss.

rborhara

Just letting you know I fixed it. got all my DATA back

Downloaded a Program called testdata. from www sud hian com and it got all my data. I did have to delete the array and recreate it. (this doesnt delete the data on there)