I have sent the drives off to be recovered in a lab. It's costing me £99 per drive though. But the data on them is worth a lot more than that to me.

The system will be set up as follows after...

SATA 1: Ubuntu OS
SATA 2: Windows XP
20gb IDE: Used to store data needed on both OS's and as a primary backup.

Then I will just keep DVD backups of stuff. I used to backup data on the server at home which put it on tape every night. But since moving back to uni I haven't and I have forgoten to do so. Sadly I have been caught out :(

ed

been reading up on it, some forums im reading are suggesting trying knopic as a recovery method, try each drive in single each time, then both together, even if the raid bios says invalid raid config, there are reports of some people having success

http://www.knoppix.org/

im going to try this in a day or 2... best part of it is that it just boots from cd & does everything pretty much itself!

I think I should have just bought another Dell :o

I think what has happened is the file system isn't really there anymore. I have given up doing it myself, the software is about £50-£100 to do it, but to pay somone to do it for me will be £100 if they can get the data back. A lot of money, but the data is worth more to me than that....

What was the striped array again? How much will another SATA II 250gb set me back too :(

If you still not fixed this, u2u me. I bought some software to do mine a while back. Works a treat!

GetDataBack - tried that? used it a few times and seems to work a treat, but depends how badly the array fooked with the disk :lol:

Also, see if there is a bios update that might have an update for the raid firmware (i know silicon image do firmware updates on there site) or update drivers.

But personally ed, run the array stripped and get a third drive to back up onto - less hassle if the mirror array fails :lol:

http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

Professional, and it's crap. It keeps on crashing and is complicated.

what version is it ed?

Will do, at the moment I am proper fucked :(

I might end up taking the disk to a data recovery specialist...

ed, let me know how you get on with this...

Yea, I installed it and I am going to try it. But I will have to pay to recover the files, slightly worried that after the scan they will want $900 to get my data :lol: Can but try though...

have you tried the free edition here:

http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/

It was a mirrored raid, it's more hassle than it's worth to be honest. It's running nvRaid.

I formatted one of the disks to get the computer up and running again, but left one corrupted one to do a recovery from...

ed, this wasnt a mirrored RAID set was it running on an onboard sillicon images raid controller??

had this happen to me too :mad: but left both drives as-is to do a recovery, or try, from both...

[Edited on 16-10-2006 by PaulW]

hopefully, let me know if it works ;)

if not, then we search for something else :)

:cool: I'm waiting for a suprise :)

u2u sent

Easy Recover is $900 :o

EasyrecoveryPro

Or if you have a copy of Symantec Ghost and a spare HDD. Try ghost it to the spare HDD then attach that to Windows an see what ya can prize off it ??

I had a major crash today for some reason. Basically my RAID array fucked up and the little bugger took both the HDD's out. One is now formatted and I am running Windows off of it, the other is corrupted and I am trying to do a recovery of the data on it.

I tried using Stellar Phoenix to do so, however, it crashed half way through. Can anyone help me out :)