PLEASE help with RAID drive!

armysgt1

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I just installed a new SSD with windows 7. Everything is great, however, my old windows 7 installation and all my game saves/pictures/movies are on my old drive which is 2 cavair blacks in RAID 0. My problem is I cannot access this disk no matter what I've tried. My pc won't even let me boot RAID drive. It keeps saying bootmgr is missing. I've tried using my motherboard disc and windows install disc to try and load the RAID drivers to repair the installation with no success. In my bios it still shows they are in RAID 0 and i can see the two RAID drives in "My Computer" in windows, but when I try to access the disks it says the drive needs to be formatted. In disk management it shows the two drives as healthy primary partition, but the file system says RAW. Is there any way I can link these two drives back together to get my files back? I dont even need to boot into windows with it. Iv'e been trying for three days now and it's really depressing knowing I might have lost a lot of important stuff. If anyone can help I will greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
 
If the array is degraded in any way, you've pretty much lost everything with RAID 0. The partition being raw means that the previous partition was deleted. If it was only the partition, but the array has remained intact, there's a good possibility of running some sort of partition recovery software and getting all of it back up and running. I don't know any free ones off the top of my head, but there's probably something useful in the freeware list, right here on CF.
 
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