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Originally Posted by XiliX View Post
I have;
-tried booting, the computer hangs after bios, and after initialising the raidcontroller.
- booted mandriva linux 2011 from dvd, and ran diskdrake, its main hdd utility. Upon starting tis it told me that the partitions on sda and sdb were too currupted, and could not be restored.

I have not tried fsck, as the drives arent recognised as beeing partitioned. I have used "dmraid -a y" command, but that didnt work either.
And im affraid i cannot use datarecovery tools as the data is stripped over two disks and they cannot be seen as one as long as raid isnt working.
So judging from here i guess the datas is lost than..
Or could running fsck still work?

Its a win7 system, i guess using ntfs.
So you've got a fake RAID setup. Make sure the controller driver is loaded before running dmraid.

I've never used diskdrake but it's likely that it would not be able to understand your fake RAID disk format even if it was in working order.

fsck won't be of any use on NTFS.

How soon after initialising the controller does it hang? If it's immediate, it could well be a controller failure rather than disk corruption.