What's lost, Raid 0 array or partition?

[sraiper]

My motherboard is ABIT KT7A Raid, on which I built a raid 0 with two
identical hard disks (WD 2X60G, 7200prm). Now my problem is, in the
Highpoint BIOS, I still can see the array of raid 0, but the computer
cannot be booted, saying no system found. I attemped to boot from XP
installation CD but it recognized the two disks separately (should be
one in raid 0), and both of them are detected as unpartitioned.

Before I strike to restore the raid/data, I'd like to be sure which
part makes the problem? Is raid array bad or the partition is lost, or
both? If you know any good software (free) for raid 0/partition
recovery, please let me know.

Thanks greatly.

Lance

 

[Jan van Wijk]

Hi Lance,

Before I strike to restore the raid/data, I'd like to be sure which
part makes the problem? Is raid array bad or the partition is lost, or
both? If you know any good software (free) for raid 0/partition
recovery, please let me know.

I can't help you with the Raid-0 aspect, but you can make a fairly
good analysis of partitioning (even damaged/deleted stuff) using
the 'DFSDISK' procedure in my DFSee tool.

One of the resulting files, 'DFSDISKI.SK1' is a large ASCII file
with many details about partition-records, bootsectors and so on ...

There is an OS2, Windows and a DOS version, but since Windows
does not boot, you would probably need to use the DOS version.
The easiest way to do that is download the bootable diskette in:

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee6xx_dsk.zip

Running the executable inside (DOS format) will create a bootable
diskettes from an empty formatted one in the A: drive ...

Then, on the blue boot-menu you should get, select:

3 - Automatic analysis of partition-table problems for all disks

This is the same as the manual 'DFSDISK' procedure (UNFDISK).
In your case it should generate FOUR files for every disk, so a
total of 8 files.

The software can be run in evaluation mode without a registration
for over a month.

Regards, JvW