New computer and now I cant see my [RAID] data

[Will Hay]

I had two WD 160gb HDD's on a RAID 0 [2 drives visable as one and double the size of the single drive; I think that's RAID 0, right?] setup.

I initially created it to capture to with my canopus ADVC-100 but times have moved on and I just use it for data.

I bought a new computer recently, installed the drivers and hardware and whilst the software could see the drives it would only let me format the drives to use them, it wouldn't let me use the existing drives and access the original data.

There are some stuff on their I'd rather keep, footage of my children when they were young, can anyone assist me in recovering the data?

Thanks and regards,
Will

[edDV]

I had two WD 160gb HDD's on a RAID 0 [2 drives visable as one and double the size of the single drive; I think that's RAID 0, right?] setup.

I initially created it to capture to with my canopus ADVC-100 but times have moved on and I just use it for data.

I bought a new computer recently, installed the drivers and hardware and whilst the software could see the drives it would only let me format the drives to use them, it wouldn't let me use the existing drives and access the original data.

There are some stuff on their I'd rather keep, footage of my children when they were young, can anyone assist me in recovering the data?

Thanks and regards,
Will

First you never needed a RAID 0 for an ADVC-100. The max data rate it exports is ~3.6 MB/sec (28.8 Mb/s) vs. ~ 50MB/s (400 Mb/s) for a single medium slow EIDE internal drive.

You need to use your old computer, get a third drive larger than 320MB and copy from your RAID to the new drive, then reformat the old RAID drives.

[makntraks]

Raid 0 blows.....


Hi Will!

makntraks

[Bjs]

Try > http://raid-2-raid.diskinternals-data-recovery.qarchive.org/ .. should older system not be available, it's free

[Will Hay]

First you never needed a RAID 0 for an ADVC-100. The max data rate it exports is ~3.6 MB/sec (28.8 Mb/s) vs. ~ 50MB/s (400 Mb/s) for a single medium slow EIDE internal drive.

My mistake, I was actually using the RAID for a Matrox Rainbow Runner GSeries and moved onto the Canopus but's it's so long ago now things like this get lost in my head.
Thanks for the lesson though.

You need to use your old computer, get a third drive larger than 320MB and copy from your RAID to the new drive, then reformat the old RAID drives.

Yes, a very good idea if my old machine wasn't fried and replacing busted parts is less favourable to going out a brand, spanking new one, hence my forum post.
Thanks.

BJS,
Thanks, I'll follow the ink and see where it takes me.

Hey makntraks,
Nice to see you still using the same avatar.
Always reminds me of a soft toy my son has...




Will

[Krispy Kritter]

Quite often, RAID controllers won't recognize Arrays created by another controller, even if the controller is identical. Another reason to ALWAYS backup your data.

[edDV]

Tell us the motherboard on the old machine. If the RAID controller was from Promise, their PCI or PCIe RAID controllers from the same generation chips should load the RAID.

I can move my older RAIDs to and from GigaByte motherboards to the Promise FastTrack PCI RAID controller. You can buy older model cards on eBay but I'd call Promise support (or other chip maker) first. Give them the mobo RAID chip number and ask for a RAID card that will load the RAID.

For example:
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Promise%20Technology%20Promise%20FastTrak%20100%20TX2:1991104681

[makntraks]

Hey makntraks,
Nice to see you still using the same avatar.
Always reminds me of a soft toy my son has...




Will

Which one is the toy???

makntraks

[minidv2dvd]

"RAID Reconstructor" may be able to sort it out for you, and allow the data to be written to another drive as an image.

[Will Hay]

Hey makntraks,
Nice to see you still using the same avatar.
Always reminds me of a soft toy my son has...




Will

Which one is the toy???

makntraks

Jeesh!
That's not me, that's the dude of the TV advert/commercial

[Will Hay]

Tell us the motherboard on the old machine.

Elite K7S5A.
Thanks,
Will

[edDV]

SiS® 735 single chip
http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?detailid=192&CategoryID=...uID=50&LanID=9

[vhelp]

Hay, Will, Copycatter. that's my rig!! ECS K7S5A, AMD XP-1800+ w/ WIN98 Gold, and whatnots..still use it on this machine (as I type this) for interneting and stuff, though used to be my video capturing, etc., too: advc-100, ATI-everything, pinnacle dc10Plus, and so on and so forth, bla bla bla. But its still good for encloser rigs. I have it connected to an external 160g when I need it, but you are better off with a dedicated pci usb-2 card and add a 4-port to it and you are in business: when you're not clowning around. Course, now I moved on (finally) to an Windows XP Home Edition, and does me just fine..actually like it real lot.

I bought an 8g flash drive stick (SanDisk) for $20 bucks over here at BestBuy cause they were on sale, reg $44 bucks. I walked down to the wal-mart store cross the street, LoL, they were selling it regularly, for $19 bucks. You can't win sometimes. Anyway. Now, I got this idea, (since my test passed with flying colors) to use it as an quicky-alternate for my pinnacle pctv pro hd captures of hdtv content, or my analog cabletv/vhs/laserdisc captures: thing actually works flawless under these conditions. They are both usb-2 and work perfectly, and only cost me somewhere between 4 and 8 gigs per hour. Not bad. Then, I could download them to an archive drive. There's a 16g or so floating around, may look into that instead, now know..I don't know. I guess I still have some energy and enthusiasticness on this old board, I guess..I don't know.

I'm just thinking out loud now, later..

-vhelp 5047

[greymalkin]

I can't look at a sock monkey without thinking of David Letterman in Cabin boy and his famous line.."Would you like to buy a monkey?"

[DereX888]

Hey makntraks,
Nice to see you still using the same avatar.
Always reminds me of a soft toy my son has...




Will

Which one is the toy???

makntraks

hahahaha
this made my day

[Will Hay]

Hay, Will, Copycatter. that's my rig!! ECS K7S5A, AMD XP-1800+ w/ WIN98 Gold, and whatnots..still use it on this machine (as I type this) for interneting and stuff, though used to be my video capturing, etc., too: advc-100, ATI-everything, pinnacle dc10Plus, and so on and so forth, bla bla bla. But its still good for encloser rigs. I have it connected to an external 160g when I need it, but you are better off with a dedicated pci usb-2 card and add a 4-port to it and you are in business: when you're not clowning around. Course, now I moved on (finally) to an Windows XP Home Edition, and does me just fine..actually like it real lot.

I bought an 8g flash drive stick (SanDisk) for $20 bucks over here at BestBuy cause they were on sale, reg $44 bucks. I walked down to the wal-mart store cross the street, LoL, they were selling it regularly, for $19 bucks. You can't win sometimes. Anyway. Now, I got this idea, (since my test passed with flying colors) to use it as an quicky-alternate for my pinnacle pctv pro hd captures of hdtv content, or my analog cabletv/vhs/laserdisc captures: thing actually works flawless under these conditions. They are both usb-2 and work perfectly, and only cost me somewhere between 4 and 8 gigs per hour. Not bad. Then, I could download them to an archive drive. There's a 16g or so floating around, may look into that instead, now know..I don't know. I guess I still have some energy and enthusiasticness on this old board, I guess..I don't know.

I'm just thinking out loud now, later..

-vhelp 5047

Do me a favour old bean, come over the UK with your machine and help me recover this data will you? 8)


BJS, edDV and minidv2dvd - thanks for the thoughts, I'll report back