Hi all,

I had a look through the forum but couldn't find what I needed.

I have a mostly dead pc (motherboard problem) and need to get the data off two drives.

Unfortunately they are striped using Raid 0 so I can't just take them out to read one at a time.

Short of putting them in another PC, or getting a new mobo, does anyone know of a way I can resolve this one?

Many thanks in advance for any suggestions!

cheers
wayjo
The last time I dealt with this, it was 2 x 36GB SCSI drives running RAID 0 striped and I had to move the drives and the Adaptec U160 SCSI controller card to a WORKING COMPUTER, install the driver for the Adaptec drives for Windows XP and then I was lucky that the stripe was not broken and so I was able to access the data.

While I was going through this process I feared the worst and was prepared to use a software utility called GetDataBack RAID which I own a licensed copy of thsi data recovery bundle, but I didnt have to use the software fortunately. The data is located here: http://www.runtime.org/

*What type of drives are these IDE, SCSI, SATA, etc and do you have a Drive Controller with RAID that can be installed into another computer or was this RAID controller integrated in the motherboard that died?

*If you were using Software RAID vs Hardware RAID it gets more tricky, because you have to introduce the drives to a same version of Windows machine that is healthy and then rejoin the RAID 0 stripe WITHOUT it repartitioning or reformatting the drives. I haven't done this yet, but from INFO I found online, I was really glad I had a regular RAID controller card that was able to be moved over to the other computer to be able to access the data.Hi Dave,

many thanks for the response!

These are SATA drives and I think it was Software RAID. Looks like I need to. One think I haven't tried is booting up another OS from DVD, just in case it is not the mobo.

If I sort it, i'll let you know how it went.

cheers
wayjo