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Recover data from Raid 0 drives.
My Dimension 8400 boat-anchored on me. Extensive trouble-shooting has failed to resurrect it. The two drives are apparently good (both spin up under power at least).
I am dumb as a hammer-handle about RAID! I may be able to borrow a working D8400 for a few days for trouble-shooting. However it has only a single 80 GB HD.
Assuming my drives are OK, if I plug them into the working D 8400 alongside the 80 GB drive, will it recognize their configuration and boot up, or do I need to change something in the BIOS for them to be recognized?
Would I be better off removing the 80 GB drive and trying to boot from the two RAID drives?
Is there any risk of this operation damaging the 8400?
ejn63
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February 2nd, 2013 13:00
There's no risk of damaging the system itself, but recovering data from a corrupt RAID 0 array is very, very difficult. If you really need the data, contact a data recovery service -- even then, there is no guarantee of recovery. If they succeed expect quite a large bill for the service - it could well cost a couple of thousand dollars.
RAID 0 is inherently very difficult to recover.
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November 11th, 2019 00:00
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