Accidently raided a drive, is my data lost???

[trOver]

I have 3 drives. A 36gb raptor, and two 320's that are identical. I wiped my 36gb and put iatkos2.0i on it. My two 320's are (were) full of stuff, with completely different data on each drive. I load up OSX (iatkos) and am able to see my o/s drive, and one of the 320's. I figure this is no big deal, because the other 320 was on a separate raid port because I had run out of regular sata ports. I figure its an apple driver error, and I forget about it.

A few days later I put vista on another 250gb drive that I added to the system, and take out the 36gb with OSX on it. Installation goes fine, however, I go to my computer, and see both of my 320s, but THEY HAVE THE SAME NAME AND THE SAME DATA ON BOTH!

I thought it was a fluke, so I tried them installed one at a time, and the issue persists.

It appears as if apple mirrored one of the 320's onto the other???

I NEED this information off the drive that got written over!

Am I screwed????

Thanks

Edit: At no point did I ever see OSX prompting me to click "next" or w/e to do this mysterious mirror. Also at no point did I ever see it copying the data. I don't know how it would have done this that fast, I only had OSX running for maybe 16 hours, and I was using it the whole time.

 

[Raduque]

You might get lucky with a piece of data recovery software.

I'm thinking you should probably keep OSX away from that machine.

Also, I hate your signature.

 

[trOver]

Originally posted by: Raduque
You might get lucky with a piece of data recovery software.

I'm thinking you should probably keep OSX away from that machine.

Also, I hate your signature.

thanks, I think this is my only option. and whats wrong w/ my sig?

 

[yhelothar]

ouch... that hurts..
good luck with the data recovery software. AFAIK, data recovery software works to recover formatted drives, but as soon as the data is overwritten, your files are gone.
I'm quite certain that the data recovery professionals can help you recover it, but it'd probably cost you thousands.

 

[montag451]

Did you 'wipe' it, or format?
If you wiped, using, say DBAN, or something similar that overwrites data - don't waste your time trying to recover anything.
If it was just formatted, you might have a chance as long as nothing else has been written to the drives. Even so, you might not get your OS back, just a bunch of files (50,000 - 80,000 just for the OS)

Good luck.

Might even try Active partition recovery or GPartEd