How to recover from RAID 0 failure?

[JohnMacro]

Hi guys,

I was working on my PC when it has frozen so my only option was hard shut down, after that my RAID 0 disk array stopped working. Now, not only it doesn't work but my MB (K8N SLI) fails to recognize even single drives (when array is turned off) on every SATA port except one.

So I though my only option is to connect my 2 drives to another PC and try to recover my data that way. I'm searching the web and trying different approaches for 2 days now.

It's nvidia "fake raid" (I know, I shouldn't have used it in a first place) and software that I tried to recover it with is Diskinternals Raid-2-raid and Diskinternals Raid Recovery.

Both recognize the stripe array but I do not see how I can recover any data from it. It also reports some problems. Here is log output:

Enumerating volumes: WDC WD6400AAKS-22A7B0
__Partition: C::\  63 245762307
__Partition: D::\  245762433 937505142
__Partition: :\  1183267638 65818242
__Partition: :\  1249085943 1172682
__Partition: :\  0 62
__Partition: :\  245762371 61
__Partition: :\  1183267576 61
__Partition: :\  1249085881 61
__Partition: :\  1250258626 5102
Hdd Serial number: WD-WCASY0505645

Enumerating volumes: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2
__Partition: :\  63 2494476747
Read Error The drive cannot find the sector requested Disk: 1  Sector: 2494476810  Size: 512 bytes
__Partition: :\  0 62
Hdd Serial number: WD-WMASY3242250

Enumerating volumes: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2
Wrong block signature  Magic: 0
__Partition: :\  0 1250263728
Hdd Serial number: WD-WMASY3242917
Total time:  47
nVidia detect. CheckSum Error
nVidia detect. CheckSum Error
Create Raid params:
Name: STRIPE 1.16T, Type: Stripe, Base: 3, DiskCount: 2, SizeInSector: 2500527360, SectorSize: 512, StripeSize: 128
Disk: $5249D40, Start: 0, Size: 1250263728
Disk: $524A080, Start: 0, Size: 1250263728

Enumerating volumes: STRIPE 1.16T (Stripe)
RaidDevice.Open: Storage already open
__Partition: :\  63 2494476747
RaidDevice.Open: Storage already open
__Partition: :\  2494476873 6040377
RaidDevice.Open: Storage already open
__Partition: :\  0 62
RaidDevice.Open: Storage already open
__Partition: :\  2494476811 61
RaidDevice.Open: Storage already open
__Partition: :\  2500517251 10109
STRIPE 1.16T: raid_storage.TRaidDevice.Open: norm!
Create Raid params:
Name: STRIPE 1.16T, Type: Stripe, Base: 3, DiskCount: 2, SizeInSector: 2500527360, SectorSize: 512, StripeSize: 128
Disk: $5249D40, Start: 0, Size: 1250263728
Disk: $524A080, Start: 0, Size: 1250263728
Create Raid params:
Name: STRIPE 1.16T, Type: Stripe, Base: 3, DiskCount: 2, SizeInSector: 2500527360, SectorSize: 512, StripeSize: 128
Disk: $5249D40, Start: 0, Size: 1250263728
Disk: $524A080, Start: 0, Size: 1250263728
WDC WD6400AAKS-22A7B0
WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2
WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2
STRIPE 1.16T (Stripe)

The filesystem is ext3 and linux swap for two partitions on the raid. It there any way to diagnose the problem and try to fix it? I also do not have enough free space to de-stripe it into image. Is there any way to mount it? Maybe under Linux too ... but I would have to set raid parameters manually (or autodetect from HDD) because the current MB doesn't support sw raid and both drives are connected as single ones.

Thanks

 

[DelJo63]

RAID-0 is a nightmare in the situation. *IF* you had a backup the solution would be

1. install new HD (one or more)
2. create the array
3. restore the backup

As is, you might send the HDs to a commercial Data Recovery company and hand them your checking book, but short of that, I think you're S.O.L. (* Out of Luck)

 

[JohnMacro]

RAID-0 is a nightmare in the situation. *IF* you had a backup the solution would be

1. install new HD (one or more)
2. create the array
3. restore the backup

As is, you might send the HDs to a commercial Data Recovery company and hand them your checking book, but short of that, I think you're S.O.L. (* Out of Luck)

Oh ... yeah, I hoped for some application that would be able to reconstruct the raid metadata and generally regenerate the drive as I suspect it's only very mildly damaged from the hard shut down. Partition table (ext3) and such should be ok (I can hope )

But professional recovery isn't so expansive as I see. 16,60 € - 100 € and 20% discount for students so it may end up pretty well LOL

Thanks anyway and if somebody has any ideas I would appreciate to hear them still before I take it to the company.