Hi guys, I recently trashed my old motherboard (Asus K8S-MX) on which I was running a RAID 0 on the 965L southbridge chip. Even though I was taking regular backups of the RAID, I missed the last one and now I have two perfectly good HDDs in RAID 0 without a RAID controller. Is there any application that will help me recover my data from the two drives, I remember the drive order as well as the block size, that I had used for the RAID on the old motherboard. Thanks in advance
The SIL9xxx is a software-based RAID, not true hardware. If you boot to Linux with both drives attached and use the dmraid utility to mount your software RAID-0, you should be able to recover all of your data with or without the actual controller being present.
Thanks for telling me that there is a way to do this right, but would you please elaborate, I am not that familiar with Linux, as when I wanted to install it, it didnt support the MB in question, In the meantime I have used a lot of windows based utilities to recover the data, and they do show me the file and folder structure correctly, but after recovering some, jpegs and mp3s, I realized that they were not correctly recovered, as the mp3s didnt even play and the jpegs showed but in the wrong colors, I had used RAID reconstructor, File Scavenger, Quick Recovery RAID 0 and Active@ File recovery, some of these recovered garbage after showing me the correct file and folder structure and some didn't even work properly.
How you install it varies slightly from distro to distro, so if you did want to do a full install, you'd have to follow the instructions relative to the version you're installing. However, you don't necessarily have to install Linux in order to recover your data. You might try a live distro like Sidux, Knoppix or Sabayon. Then mount your RAID using the dmraid utility. Since you're not already proficient in Linux, you may have to do some Googling to get it right, but in the end you'll have full access to your data. You can then move it to another drive, or perhaps to a network share. Unfortunately, since you've already tried Windows-based tools to recover the data, it may be too late to recover it. You can try, but RAID-0 is very unforgiving of errors. The data may be lost permanently.
