Error importing foreign disk set in stripe after windows xp reinstallation

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Hi.
First, thank you for all the help in advance.

I have three IDE disks in a system.
One was system disk and the other two are same size(279gb) and combined
as stripe.
After reinstalling OS(Windows XP Pro) on the system disk, I can't use
the two data disks.

When I enter disk manager, it show them as foreign disk 1 and 2 (Disk 0
is the system disk)
When I try to import it, it takes about 10 minutes in hard disk
activity then says it failed. Nothing happens. When I try again, there
is no disk activity but nothing happens either.

I tried command prompt "diskpart" as well. It is pretty same.

The data is so vital!
Please advise me any further action.

Thanks.
 
Hi.
First, thank you for all the help in advance.

I have three IDE disks in a system.
One was system disk and the other two are same size(279gb) and combined
as stripe.
After reinstalling OS(Windows XP Pro) on the system disk, I can't use
the two data disks.

When I enter disk manager, it show them as foreign disk 1 and 2 (Disk 0
is the system disk)
When I try to import it, it takes about 10 minutes in hard disk
activity then says it failed. Nothing happens. When I try again, there
is no disk activity but nothing happens either.

I tried command prompt "diskpart" as well. It is pretty same.

The data is so vital!
Please advise me any further action.

Thanks.
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I may be wrong but I thought only Windows Servers can
use striped disks. I also thought that this was a Windows
2000 newsgroup, not Windows XP.

If I'm right about servers then you should connect the disks
to a server in order to retrieve your files.

And if your data is vital then it's time to review your backup
strategy.
 
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