RAID 1 data recovery

[DoorBasher]

OK, here's what happened. I was fooling around with my cooling, and I found MBM 5's option to look for HDD temperature sensors. Yes, I read the readme, and I saw it didn't work with RAID. Well guess what I did. I picked the wrong hard drive in the list of sensors, selecting my RAID array instead of my ordinary 60GB boot drive.

Next reboot, windows refused to believe my F: drive (twin Samsung 120GBs in RAID 1) was formatted. I realized what I'd done, and cleared the MBM settings, which didn't help. I tried each drive individually on the motherboard's built-in IDE controller instead of my add-on RAID card, same thing. So I hooked them up like they were before, and the RAID card (a very cheap Koutech) complained about an "incomplete RAID array". I could re-create it, but I did that once before and lost everything on the drives. (Turns out the reason for the incomplete array then was that one of the IDE plugs wasn't tight... lost everything! :bang head )

Can I just re-create the array and not lose anything? Any way to get the data back? Thanks in advance.

[johan851]

Weird. Raid 1 shouldn't be THAT fragile. There are some recovery programs like GetDataBack that have worked for me in the past...one of those might work on a single drive.

So is Windows disk management calling it an unformatted partition? Or is it just not assigning it a drive letter? Or does it even see it as a partition at all?

[NsOmNiA91130]

Try System Restore.

[MoPMatrix]

Try System Restore.

System restore is useless in this case, it can only do simple things like roll back drivers, fix your icons, and other small settings. Not massive data recovery.

I second GetDataBack, It saved my 10GB stash of MP3s and about 60GB of videos when my WD HD died for the third time -_-