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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: tms on April 07, 2006, 05:10:33 PM
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I set up a Silicon Image RAID control card in my pc and created a RAID1 mirrored set (2 hard drives with the same data on both). In the process of troubleshooting another problem I pulled the card (thinking I could put it back in no problem) but alas, after reinstalling the card I can not get the set recognized by Windows2000 Pro.
I tried connecting one of the drives directly to the main board, it recognized it but didn't see any data on there. In the process of assigning it a drive letter I ended up reformatting it, so that one is gone.
Is there any way to get this data off the remaining hard drive? There's about 50GB of shows I taped on there and I hate to lose them. Apparently it's stored as metadata? It's not NTFS or FAT32 or anything 'normal'
Any advice would be much appreciated although I think I'm f'ed.
Thanks,
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You should be able to plug the drive into a standard controller, IE the one on your Motherboard and it should show up as a single disk. If it is using a propretary FS method you may be SOL. Does SI provide any tools outside of the drivers?
Are the drives recognized at POST (when the computer is booting)?
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You should be able to plug the drive into a standard controller, IE the one on your Motherboard and it should show up as a single disk. If it is using a propretary FS method you may be SOL. Does SI provide any tools outside of the drivers?
Are the drives recognized at POST (when the computer is booting)?
That's what I thought, but when I plugged it into the mainboard it was recognized but showed unallocated, no data seen even though there was 50gb on there.
Thank you for the help.
I ended up taking the remaining drive and the RAID card to a local PC repair place and after a couple days they managed to recover the data, reformated the drive as NTFS and put the data back on it for $48. I couldn't believe it. I had pretty much given up hope on getting it back.
So no more RAID systems for me, I stuck that hard drive into an Ultra external enclosure which connects by firewire or USB2. It was immediately recognized by Win2000 Pro and I got the data back onto my pc, so now I can just use the external hd for my backup.