Recovery after rebuilding RAID Array
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:37 pm
Dear All,
If anyone can help me with this problem i would be most appreciative.
I had a RAID 0 Array of 2 x 250 GB Drives. These were partitioned 100/400, C:/D: respectively. The array failed, pre xp splash screen, with the bootable "no" error from my HW RAID (Intel) menu. None of the hard drives are physically damaged, this has been checked. It decided that one of the raid arrays was a "non raid disk", and therefore didnt want to boot.
At the time i didnt realise there are various methods of rebuilding RAID arrays, and as i hadent long installed win7 (fresh build) and i had all my data (so i thought) on another 1TB drive, i decided to avoid the lengthy process of restoring an array and went ahead with re-building the RAID 0 array, and installing windows again. It was only when i got to the desktop i realised that all of my pictures where on the 400 (D) of the initial raid array.
So, i've now tried two seperate peices of software to recover these pictures, and have done several scans with different parameters to try and find them. All my previous data recovery has been with non raid set-up and i've found them fairly easy, but no such luck this time. I've tried scanning each of the existing C:/D drives, and i found everything but every file is "empty". I've tried briefly to make a virtual raid array and have selected my existing drives but this is where i simply havent been before, and need some advice. I do not understand how and if it is possible to create a virtual raid array, or if this would even be the right thing to do, to somehow try and rebuild my old array (virtually?) and then save the pictures to an external drive.
At present, i am using R-Studio and wonder if anyone else has experience (or a similar experience) of recovering data from a failed RAID 0 array, after rebuilding the array. Is there a method of re-creating a past RAID 0 Array? Or is it simply a case of my search criteria needing to be more accurate?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've lost ALL of my pictures that i have ever had through about 7 rebuilds of my computer. I have had one succesful scan (With GetDataBack) which found all of the files, however they were "empty" and i couldnt retreive them. I read somewhere that if they are empty, they havent been recovered correctly, which means i'm hoping its just down to me not doing a correct initial scan to recover them.
Thanks,
kol
If anyone can help me with this problem i would be most appreciative.
I had a RAID 0 Array of 2 x 250 GB Drives. These were partitioned 100/400, C:/D: respectively. The array failed, pre xp splash screen, with the bootable "no" error from my HW RAID (Intel) menu. None of the hard drives are physically damaged, this has been checked. It decided that one of the raid arrays was a "non raid disk", and therefore didnt want to boot.
At the time i didnt realise there are various methods of rebuilding RAID arrays, and as i hadent long installed win7 (fresh build) and i had all my data (so i thought) on another 1TB drive, i decided to avoid the lengthy process of restoring an array and went ahead with re-building the RAID 0 array, and installing windows again. It was only when i got to the desktop i realised that all of my pictures where on the 400 (D) of the initial raid array.
So, i've now tried two seperate peices of software to recover these pictures, and have done several scans with different parameters to try and find them. All my previous data recovery has been with non raid set-up and i've found them fairly easy, but no such luck this time. I've tried scanning each of the existing C:/D drives, and i found everything but every file is "empty". I've tried briefly to make a virtual raid array and have selected my existing drives but this is where i simply havent been before, and need some advice. I do not understand how and if it is possible to create a virtual raid array, or if this would even be the right thing to do, to somehow try and rebuild my old array (virtually?) and then save the pictures to an external drive.
At present, i am using R-Studio and wonder if anyone else has experience (or a similar experience) of recovering data from a failed RAID 0 array, after rebuilding the array. Is there a method of re-creating a past RAID 0 Array? Or is it simply a case of my search criteria needing to be more accurate?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've lost ALL of my pictures that i have ever had through about 7 rebuilds of my computer. I have had one succesful scan (With GetDataBack) which found all of the files, however they were "empty" and i couldnt retreive them. I read somewhere that if they are empty, they havent been recovered correctly, which means i'm hoping its just down to me not doing a correct initial scan to recover them.
Thanks,
kol