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Re: Recover data from RAID-0

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Originally Posted by XiliX (Post 1368484)

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its two 1TB drives. I also thought of using dd to backup the disks enterely, but we do not have enough empty diskspace available...

What is the strucure of the data you want to rescue?
(word documents, jpeg's, plain text files?)

Re: Recover data from RAID-0

Theres a good idea, worth a shot!
The disks contain anything from baby's first step video's to fully cleared skyrim games.
The most ironic of all is that the external drive used for backups, crashed a week earlier.

Re: Recover data from RAID-0

Longshot, but try something:

Disable RAID from the bios and then boot to linux.

I just moved a FakeRaid (bios) array from a windows pc to linux, and I was prepared to format it, when at my amazement, I found out that linux recognized the array and had it available on /dev/dm-0

It also did recognize two more disks as raid which had once been in a striped array on windows but weren't anymore and I had to break the array manually and change partition type to get to access the data.

Beware though that there's a possibility that when you re-enable raid it might not recognize the disks again as an array (I find it unlikely, but you never know)