Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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I have been passed a PC, which I have not yet looked at but have a slight predicament.
The PC will not start, at the moment either the mobo/PSU is the suspect, but AFAIK all the drives are fine.
The PC has a Raid0 and I need to extract some files ASAP.
Is there an easy way of going about this?
The drives themselves are fine but I obviously don't want to put them in my PC and create a new raid array, if that'll wipe the existing?
Adam
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Dom
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If the array is still intact and OK then swapping to a motherboard with the same chipset (have heard of ICH9 arrays working on ICH10 etc So worth doing a Google around your chipset) should work without issue and is usually the easiest option. I've done this once but i was lucky to be able to purchase the same motherboard.
Otherwise you could try the numerous raid recovery software that's about like RAID Reconstructor, Raid Recovery or EaseUS Data Recovery and see if they work.
Alternatively there's the 'linux method' which is where you essentially mount the raid within a flavour of linux, Ubuntu seems to be the most mentioned, and attempt to reconstruct and recover the data there.
Can't say i've tried the software or linux route.
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Richie
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Intel arrays move across with the disks - I moved mine from an ICH7 to an ICH10 and it picked it up without doing anything,
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Bart
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Richie,
so in theory, I'll just need to enable the connected SATA ports as Raid and then what?
Go into the mobo raid settings and check/create the new raid or let it boot straight to windows?
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Richie
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You need to go into the BIOS on the new board, enable RAID, shut down - hook the drives up - then power up - the Intel option rom will invoke and will show you if it's picked up the array - you will see "Member Disk" next to each disk.
If the current board that's broken uses a weird Marvell controller for RAID then you might have issues.
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Richie
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Example of what I'm talking about
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Bart
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My own board also has an intel raid 0, so in theory, I could swap the drives then?
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Bart
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Update... yes it will work... Thanks Richie, was just plug and play
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