Trashed disk drive using RAID, please help

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Ted

I did a very stupid thing today. I thought that I could mirror my hard
drive (which I had installed everything onto in an unmirrored format)
on the fly. However, when I enabled the Silicon Image 2112 controller
for RAID on my AOpen AX4SPE Max I found that this wiped the format
information off my drive. So I have a drive that (I'm sure) still
physically contains all my data, but I can't reach it because there's
no format information any more.

If anyone has any ideas, software, pointers to a way to restore at
least some of this information (in particular I'd really like to get a
few documents that I saved on this disk and my mail folders back) I'd
sure appreciate hearing from you.

Ted Schroeder
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Ted said:
I did a very stupid thing today. I thought that I could mirror my hard
drive (which I had installed everything onto in an unmirrored format)
on the fly. However, when I enabled the Silicon Image 2112 controller
for RAID on my AOpen AX4SPE Max I found that this wiped the format
information off my drive. So I have a drive that (I'm sure) still
physically contains all my data, but I can't reach it because there's
no format information any more.

If anyone has any ideas, software, pointers to a way to restore at
least some of this information (in particular I'd really like to get a
few documents that I saved on this disk and my mail folders back) I'd
sure appreciate hearing from you.
Click to expand...

If it's just the partition table that got wiped out:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/?testdisk.html

Stephan
 
I had a hard drive crash last year on my wife's PC which essentially wiped
out the partition data, and as usual she had not backed up for months.

I was able to repartition the drive to get it to be recognized by my PC, but
I could not access the data, which sounds like your problem.

I tried a lot of the data recovery software available for download and demo.
The one which I eventually purchased was "Get Data Back" by Runtime Software
www.runtime.org.

This software runs in Windows which was fine for me since I had put the sick
drive in my PC and wanted a Windows application.

Using the software I was able to recover over 90% of my wife's datafiles.

I hope this works for you.

Dave Paine.
 
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