yummydown123
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Hello all and thank you for reading my post.
I have an older computer, from around the time that 64-bit motherboards came out. It was the first (and last) computer I ever built. I used to be a lot more into computers and have gotten less familiar with them over time so please excuse me if some of what i'm asking seems stupid, I know no better.
When I set this computer up I bought two 120gb sata drives and set them up on RAID 0 (I think thats striped raid). From my understanding the data is shared between the 2 hard drives in that raid configuration. (As opposed to mirrored, where the 2nd harddrive acts as a data backup?) Anyway, at some point I ended up having a drive failure on one of the HDD's. My computer turns on for a couple of seconds, I can see my desktop and I have enough time to open my documents folder and see some of my files, then it blue screens.
It's an old computer and I have no interest in using it, but I would like to recover some photos that were stored on those drives.
I have tried borrowing a SATA to USB device from a friend, but it doesn't see anything on the drives. What else can I try? Are their any bios settings I can change that will allow me more time to get to the files I want to recover? What would you guys do?
Thank you in advance and again, I apologize for any part of this question that seems stupid. I really don't know what i'm talking about.
I have an older computer, from around the time that 64-bit motherboards came out. It was the first (and last) computer I ever built. I used to be a lot more into computers and have gotten less familiar with them over time so please excuse me if some of what i'm asking seems stupid, I know no better.
When I set this computer up I bought two 120gb sata drives and set them up on RAID 0 (I think thats striped raid). From my understanding the data is shared between the 2 hard drives in that raid configuration. (As opposed to mirrored, where the 2nd harddrive acts as a data backup?) Anyway, at some point I ended up having a drive failure on one of the HDD's. My computer turns on for a couple of seconds, I can see my desktop and I have enough time to open my documents folder and see some of my files, then it blue screens.
It's an old computer and I have no interest in using it, but I would like to recover some photos that were stored on those drives.
I have tried borrowing a SATA to USB device from a friend, but it doesn't see anything on the drives. What else can I try? Are their any bios settings I can change that will allow me more time to get to the files I want to recover? What would you guys do?
Thank you in advance and again, I apologize for any part of this question that seems stupid. I really don't know what i'm talking about.