recovering a raid0 setup

[Overlag]

Asus A8V, with promise raid

i was setting the pc up in its new location and i turned it on.. she started to start up fine. However half way through loading WindowsXP ONE OF THE HARDDRIVE PLUGS FELL OUT (thank you enermax for your loose connectors)

now the raid shows as "offline" and the promise bios cant rebuild it. Will i have ANY luck getting this working? any sort of "third party" programs that might be able to rebuild? the data is most likely fine as nothing would have been deleted for sure by a "simple" power failure?

its NTFS, its 2x 80gig WD's i have about 70gig of data on it, about 30gig being important...

[TheFeniX]

You can try and call ASUS. They're tech support is pretty good.

But, I'd say with 95% certainty: you're boned. Sorry man.

[Overlag]

someone has said to recreate the raid, but NOT to format it
then use something like final data/File Scavenger 3.0 to recover files. Will try it in a few days :s

[Overlag]

my drive i was going to copy data too, has failed......160gig down the drain. thankfully that was backed up....

sigh....

[warcriminal2]

did u ever get that up and running?

I got a similar system and was wondering what it took to fix that.


Processor
Model : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Speed : 1.80GHz
Model Number : 3000 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR2706 (estimated)
Type : Standard
L2 On-board Cache : 512kB ECC Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way set, 64 byte line size

Mainboard
Bus(es) : ISA AGP PCI IMB USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
MP Support : 1 CPU(s)
MP APIC : Yes
System BIOS : American Megatrends Inc. 1014.006
System : To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Mainboard : ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A8V Deluxe
Total Memory : 1GB DDR-SDRAM

Chipset 1
Model : ASUSTeK Computer Inc K8T880Pro CPU to PCI Bridge
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 1000MHz (2000MHz data rate)

Chipset 2
Model : Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 / Opteron HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 1000MHz (2000MHz data rate)
Total Memory : 1GB DDR-SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 200MHz (400MHz data rate)

Video System
Desktop Monitors/Panels : 2
Monitor/Panel : Default Monitor
Monitor/Panel : Plug and Play Monitor
Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Physical Storage Devices
Removable Drive : Floppy disk drive
Hard Disk : Maxtor 54098H8 (38GB)
Hard Disk : Promise 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Device (69GB)
Hard Disk : PNY Attache 2.0 USB Device
CD-ROM/DVD : TOSHIBA CD/DVDW SD-R5372 (CD 48X Rd, 48X Wr) (DVD 6X Rd, 6X Wr)

Logical Storage Devices
System drive (C : 69GB (19GB, 28% Free Space) (NTFS)
Storage drive (D : 38GB (8.2GB, 21% Free Space) (NTFS)
Bf2 cd 1 (E : 672MB (CDFS)
Removable Drive (F : 116MB (92MB, 79% Free Space) (FAT32)

Peripherals
FireWire/1394 Controller/Hub : VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Keyboard : Logitech HID-Compliant Keyboard
Mouse : Logitech HID-compliant Cordless Mouse
Mouse : Logitech HID-compliant Cordless Mouse
Human Interface : Logitech Freedom 2.4 (HID)
Human Interface : HID-compliant consumer control device
Human Interface : HID-compliant device
Human Interface : HID-compliant consumer control device
Human Interface : Logitech Freedom 2.4 USB
Human Interface : Logitech Cordless USB Mouse
Human Interface : Logitech Cordless USB Keyboard
Human Interface : Logitech Cordless USB Mouse & Enhanced Keys

MultiMedia Device(s)
Device : Hauppauge WinTV 878/9 WDM Video Driver
Device : Hauppauge WinTV 878/9 WDM Aux Driver
Device : Realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA (R) Audio Controller

Operating System(s)
Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP/2002 Professional (Win32 x86) 5.01.2600 (Service Pack 2)

Network Services
Adapter : Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller

[Overlag]

i had my 160gig harddrive give up on me so i have no means on getting the Possibly recoverable data off of my raid0 as of yet. The only drive i CAN install on my old system with the raid is only 20gig, but thats useless if i need to get 70gig of data off of it

Sorry but i will have to update you later when Maxtor gets the replacement to me. then i will set the system up and get it ready for a hopeful recovery of most my data

probably wishful thinking though.

[KeithMann]

By virtue of my profession, I've had a lot of experience with RAID and I'm afraid the recent proliferation of RAID controllers on PC motherboards has led some users to make choices that might be less safe than they realize.

I strongly recommend avoiding RAID0 (which isn't really RAID since it's not redundant). Basically, you're exponentially increasing the chance of losing your data because if any drive in the array fails, you lose the whole works. Furthermore, recovering data from a failed array drive is much trickier than recovering it from a single standalone drive.

RAID1 and RAID5 can both be effective for home users, but RAID0 is risky...please use it only for non-critical data or for data that's regularly backed up.

[Overlag]

totaly agree on that.

i might set up a mirror now lol......however that still brings up a problem. Raid setups dont like moving around onto different controlers, and with onboard controlers what the hell can you do when the MB fails? well buy another of the same model, but that sucks!