Raid 0 Recovery Help

[Kdiver58]

I was playing around with a computer I have. I put a new CPU in it and it was fine after a couple of week I started to overclock it .. I went over the edge and the computer kept cycling rebooting .. so I pulled the jumper , reset the bios and everything was fine.
I kept notes on what I was doing and headed back towards the edge again with the memory. The CPU overclocked with no problems. So I'd fall off the edge again and reset it and start over. Then something different happened about the 4 time I did this . It will not boot the raid 0 array (2 drives).
I wondered if I toasted something on the motherboard so I put an old XP set of drives I had in the computer (also setup as raid 0 ) and it booted and ran fine. The computer's board is fine .. so that is not the problem.

Is there a program that I can boot off of a CD or DVD that I can use to repair the raid 0 array ? I'd like to fix it if I can.

 

[schmuckley]

hmmm..boots into xp with raid 0 but not 7,right?
You need a Windows disk..
boot..go into "repair" then cancel out and fanagle around until you can get to dos prompt..
type : "bootrec.exe /fixboot"
"bootrec.exe /fixmbr"
"bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd"
hitting enter after each of the 3 commands..
reboot and hope

 

[Kdiver58]

The XP raid 0 array was another set of drives .. I have to use XP now and again on this computer. The problem is with the raid 0 array set of drives that have Windows 7 home premium on them. I have a full backup I can restore from but would rather fix this one if I can .. The drives are fine.
I've tried the normal boot off of the windows 7 disk and tried to reinstall windows 7 on the array but windows searches forever and finds nothing.
Thanks .. K

 

[Dr-Kiev]

According to the description of your motherboard, raid0 was built by VIA southbridge, not with Windows LDM manager. Considering this, raid config was stored in special service area on the back of each drives, and this data was wiped or deleted somehow. In this case you have few options: Create same raid0 using another two dummy drives (with same size), transfer raid meta data from them to your original ones according to the correct order (0-1).
Or you can easy reconstruct raid0 using winhex or r-studio , and clone all user space to another previously built raid on the same motherboard.

 

[Kdiver58]

I tried to make a windows recovery disk by building exactly what I had and that didn't work ..
I'm going to do a little more digging and then go out and buy a couple of drives ..

Keep em coming .. Thanks .. K

use something like this to copy the area from one drive to the other ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002

 

[Dr-Kiev]

I tried to make a windows recovery disk by building exactly what I had and that didn't work ..
I'm going to do a little more digging and then go out and buy a couple of drives ..

Keep em coming .. Thanks .. K

use something like this to copy the area from one drive to the other ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812232002

Yes ,should work, but check the result under windows (winhex has compare option ). Sometimes, raid controllers limit logical size of disks with HPA command (ata standart). In this case , original drive will be a little bit "smaller" than recipient. Service data won't be transfered.

 

[Kdiver58]

I have a one year old backup of this array done with these drives on a external hard drive.
I was done with Acronis True Image. Do you think I would be able to get the meta data file off of that backup ? Or does it build a new one as it restores the system ?

 

[Kdiver58]

I have downloaded, and run, raid re constructor (TRIAL) from their Runtime Boot CD. It was able to see the drives and gave a solution to the rebuild. Before I buy the Raid re constructor software, Has anyone used it ? Does it come with a boot CD option ?

 

[Kdiver58]

Well IMHO Raid Re-constructor is just about worthless. After buying the software I found that it really just puts together files that you MIGHT be able to get back. You have to pay another $99 to actually get the files. That's $198 for nothing , the solutions you all gave me, for free, worked much better. Thanks .. K