I lost my RAID 0 setup (using Win XP home) and was wondering if theres a good way to either restore it or at least get back into it to retrieve some data.
I turned on the system last night and it wouldnt boot; real quick I noticed the RAID status screen that precedes the boot process was missing not a good sign. So I went into the BIOS and couldnt find the array name, though I did see both individual SATA drives among the bootable options. I popped in my Win XP CD and it seems to see the array (reports a drive of about 156G, which is my two identical WD 80G drives) but says its empty and only gives me an option to partition the whole thing before formatting also not a good sign.
Normally Id just wipe the array and reinstall the backup, but I was right in the middle of a big project with a bunch of important data that didnt get backed up yet (that backup was scheduled for last night!!!). I have an Asus MB with onboard SATA and use Intel RAID drivers, if that makes a difference.
Crossing my fingers
I turned on the system last night and it wouldnt boot; real quick I noticed the RAID status screen that precedes the boot process was missing not a good sign. So I went into the BIOS and couldnt find the array name, though I did see both individual SATA drives among the bootable options. I popped in my Win XP CD and it seems to see the array (reports a drive of about 156G, which is my two identical WD 80G drives) but says its empty and only gives me an option to partition the whole thing before formatting also not a good sign.
Normally Id just wipe the array and reinstall the backup, but I was right in the middle of a big project with a bunch of important data that didnt get backed up yet (that backup was scheduled for last night!!!). I have an Asus MB with onboard SATA and use Intel RAID drivers, if that makes a difference.
Crossing my fingers