RAID 0 Help...

[Geek1]

I need help, or information about repairing a "broken" RAID 0 Array. I have 2 200Gb, SATA150, WD caviar drives on an Asus motherboard with the Via KT890 chipset. The other day I got the "blue screen of death" from windows XP Pro, and on reboot the onboard raid chip failed to initialize the drives and reports one drive as being "broken". I downloaded the Via V-RAID utilities and I think I have figured out what has happened. It appears that both drives are spinning and functioning properly, however one drive has simply (ha ha ha...) lost its connection to the array. Now my question is this: If I delete the "broken" array, and reconnect the array using the create new array tool will the drives start talking again and retain the information I previously had on them? I know no one probably knows for sure, but what do you think???

This screen shows my array with an "X"ed out "broken" drive, the drive that should be in its place is listed below the array.

This shows the drives status.

Anyway, thanks for any help...

 

[Cromewell]

I think you are screwed. I'm pretty sure deleting the array and recreating it will destroy the data. You can try disconnecting and reconnecting the drive but if the data on them is different for whatever reason it's effectively all gone. I don't use RAID so I don't know if there is anything else you can try but RAID0 arrays usually don't even work if you simply move them to another controller so I don't know if you will be able to fix it without recreating it.

There are some utilities around that claim to be able to recover data from a damaged stripe array but I don't know how well they work if at all.

 

[K3rupt]

I Believe Untstriping the array will lose ALL Data over the 2 drives.

As it is shared between them thus giving you more speed.

I think you will have to Re-Format.