Raid 0 recovery

[WisdoM]

Back in 05 I did a home brew desk top, 2.53gig P4 overclocked to 3.00gig, 4gig of mem, Radeon 9800 pro vid card on an Asus P4P800 mobo…I set up my two 40gig hard drives in a raid 0 array, well my mobo finally gave out and I was wondering if there is any worth while way to get some of my data back…I was thinking about digging up another pc and putting in a raid pci card, I don’t know if it will work but I guess its worth a try. Luckily I only lost less than a months worth of data but still would be nice to get it back. Anyone else dealt with raid 0 data recovery?

 

[Rifleman]

More than plenty to say with confidence; It ain't happening...

 

[mjonesjr]

You may be able to plug the hard drives into another mother board that supports RAID and pull the data, but I doubt it. It isn't easy to switch mother boards without having to reformat the hard drives. You have to have the mother board that the drives were on originally to change the BIOS to the new board.

Other than that, there is no recovery in a RAID 0. Raid 0 divides the information up between the 2 drives to help speed things up a bit.

If you had set them up in a RAID 1, then you could recover if you lose a single drive. RAID 1 mirrors a drive onto another drive. If one drive goes down, then you have a mirror of what the dead drive had on it.

 

[WisdoM]

I have read a few success storys on accessing the raid 0 data on a different mobo using the same “brand” of raid controller, so for $15-$20 for a raid card I’ll give it a whirl

 

[mjonesjr]

If you already have a RAID card, then why not use it?

Good luck finding an ASUS RAID controller for that price.

 

[WisdoM]

If you already have a RAID card, then why not use it?

Good luck finding an ASUS RAID controller for that price.

I dont already have a raid card...the VIA raid controller was in the mobo, and newegg has the card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124023

 

[92 5 oh]

not sure if you've already got your hdd situation figured out, but these little devices are worth their weight in gold
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156101
i have some at work that will do ide and sata to usb. i've had to use them numerous times to retrieve data from just the disk.

 

[AllanD]

Accessing the drives as boot drives on another MoBo ain't happening.

However using them as secondary HDD's on another computer to recover data?

Far more likely.

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