Raid 0 Help

by **VernonRobinson** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:18 pm

For those who have been tracking my memory issues from a previous thread, I now have a new wrinkle. My machine was configured with a Raid 0 and one of the drives has failed according to the CPU. I took the "failed drive" out and put it in another USB enclosure. It seems to spin up. I used a hex editor and it seems to have data on it.

I have another drive of the same size and wanted to copy the info off the failed drive onto the new drive. However, Windows wants me to initialize the drive. I purchased Acronis, thinking that it would CLONE the failed drive. It does not recognize the drive since it must rely on Windows to provide drive access? Does anyone know of a tool that will just read and copy sector by sector from the failed drive to the new drive?

Thanks,
-Vernon

by **Chuck Engels** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:54 pm

Vernon, If you put the drive in an enclosure and connect it to the computer via USB you should be able to access at least some of the data on the drive depending on what is wrong with it.

by **Bob** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:16 pm

Chuck, Raid 0 doesn't work that way. Raid 0 stripes the data evenly across both drives and that includes the file system itself. There is no parity and recovery is unlikely. Lose one drive and you lose both. While it may be possible for a recovery service to use a special tool to recover some data, recovery is not guaranteed. In general, recovered data will be incomplete and corrupt.