Can I recover from a failed Raid 1 disk?

[mccamli]

It's a very long story but in short I have one Raid 1 disk (I had to delete the other one) but it is showing up as failed rather than degraded. The original Raid was built with ICH8R and I'm now running with ICH9R.

Is there any way of retrieving the information from a failed Raid 1 disk? (the disk itself is working ok)

"mccamli" <mccamli.3154we@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
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>
> It's a very long story but in short I have one Raid 1 disk (I had to
> delete the other one) but it is showing up as failed rather than
> degraded. The original Raid was built with ICH8R and I'm now running
> with ICH9R.
>
> Is there any way of retrieving the information from a failed Raid 1
> disk? (the disk itself is working ok)
>


Try each drive one at a time and see if one had perhaps partially shorted
and prevented the other from working...
Not likely both drives would have failed at once unless there was a power
surge

[mccamli]

Ok, a bit more information...

I have three 320GB disks, One is showing up as a raid disk with a failed rRaid 0 (Which I know I have to live with) and a failed Raid 1 (which I hope I can recover somehow)

One of the other disks contains an 80GB backup which I'm happy to sacrifice if I can recover the info on the Raid disk.

The other disk contains Vista and restored information from the backup.

Do I have to make one of the disks a Raid disk first? If so, how do I do that?

Why RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea
http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles?&id=29

RAID Explained
http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=24


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"mccamli" wrote:

It's a very long story but in short I have one Raid 1 disk (I had to
delete the other one) but it is showing up as failed rather than
degraded. The original Raid was built with ICH8R and I'm now running
with ICH9R.

Is there any way of retrieving the information from a failed Raid 1
disk? (the disk itself is working ok)


--
mccamli

[mccamli]

I was rebuilding my pc and constantly getting a blue screen so I sacrificed one disk and loaded Vista onto it. That left me with one 'goo'disk and now I'm trying to re-build from that one.

"mccamli" <mccamli.3157q2@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
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> I was rebuilding my pc and constantly getting a blue screen so I
> sacrificed one disk and loaded Vista onto it. That left me with one
> 'goo'disk and now I'm trying to re-build from that one.
>
>
>

I think I'd take the advice someone else suggested and skip the RAID
altogether.
Just backup your data as often as needed to DVD's.

Anyway that's up to you of course

[mccamli]

I'm just trying to recreate the raid array from my one good disk so that I can get my data & programmes back. Then I'll copy the data over to another disk and forget about the whole Raid thing.

"mccamli" <mccamli.315d9x@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
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> I'm just trying to recreate the raid array from my one good disk so that
> I can get my data & programmes back. Then I'll copy the data over to
> another disk and forget about the whole Raid thing.
>
>


You said it was RAID 1


You can get the data from the good disk.
there would be no need to re-create the array

[mccamli]

Thanks philo but how do I do that? How can I recover the data from the good disk.

Do I need to wipe a disk and reformat it so that a rebuild can take place?

Here is a dump of the Intel Matrix Storage Console which might help...

P.S. Sorry for the delayed reply...just got back from a wet trip to Uluru

Array_0000
Status: No active migration(s)
Hard Drive Write Cache Enabled: Yes
Size: 596.1 GB
Free Space: 0 GB
Number of Hard Drives: 2
Hard Drive Member 1: Hitachi HDT725032V
Hard Drive Member 2: Missing hard drive
Number of Volumes: 2
Volume Member 1: Vista & Programs
Volume Member 2: Mirrorred Data

Vista & Programs
Status: Failed
System Volume: No
Volume Write-Back Cache Enabled: No
RAID Level: RAID 0 (striping)
Strip Size: 128 KB
Size: 150 GB
Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Number of Hard Drives: 2
Hard Drive Member 1: Hitachi HDT725032V
Hard Drive Member 2: Missing hard drive
Parent Array: Array_0000

Mirrorred Data
Status: Failed
System Volume: No
Volume Write-Back Cache Enabled: No
RAID Level: RAID 1 (mirroring)
Size: 223 GB
Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Number of Hard Drives: 2
Hard Drive Member 1: Hitachi HDT725032V
Hard Drive Member 2: Missing hard drive
Parent Array: Array_0000

Hard Drive 0
Usage: Non-RAID hard drive
Status: Normal
Device Port: 0
Device Port Location: Internal
Current Serial ATA Transfer Mode: Gener
Model: Hitachi HDT725032VLA360
Serial Number: VFM204R82D194B
Firmware: V54OA7EA
Native Command Queuing Support: Yes
System Hard Drive: No
Size: 298 GB
Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes

Hard Drive 1
Usage: Array member
Status: Normal
Device Port: 1
Device Port Location: Internal
Current Serial ATA Transfer Mode: Gener
Model: Hitachi HDT725032VLA360
Serial Number: VFD200R20BXGLC
Firmware: V54OA52A
Native Command Queuing Support: Yes
Hard Drive Write Cache Enabled: Yes
Size: 298 GB
Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Number of Volumes: 2
Volume Member 1: Vista & Programs
Volume Member 2: Mirrorred Data
Parent Array: Array_0000

Hard Drive 2
Usage: Non-RAID hard drive
Status: Normal
Device Port: 5
Device Port Location: Internal
Current Serial ATA Transfer Mode: Gener
Model: Hitachi HDT725032VLA360
Serial Number: VFD200R20BZ57C
Firmware: V54OA52A
Native Command Queuing Support: Yes
System Hard Drive: Yes
Size: 298 GB
Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes

Hard Drive 3
Status: Missing

I recently found this program and used it on a failed raid 0 and it
recovered everything.

http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/

"mccamli" <mccamli.31h69c@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
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>
> Thanks philo but how do I do that? How can I recover the data from the
> good disk.
>
> Do I need to wipe a disk and reformat it so that a rebuild can take
> place?
>
> Here is a dump of the Intel Matrix Storage Console which might help...
>
> P.S. Sorry for the delayed reply...just got back from a wet trip to
> Uluru
>
> Array_0000
> Status: No active migration(s)
> Hard Drive Write Cache Enabled: Yes
> Size: 596.1 GB
> Free Space: 0 GB
> Number of Hard Drives: 2
> Hard Drive Member 1: Hitachi HDT725032V
> Hard Drive Member 2: Missing hard drive
> Number of Volumes: 2
> Volume Member 1: Vista & Programs
> Volume Member 2: Mirrorred Data
>
> Vista & Programs
> Status: Failed
> System Volume: No
> Volume Write-Back Cache Enabled: No
> RAID Level: RAID 0 (striping)
> Strip Size: 128 KB
> Size: 150 GB
> Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
> Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
> Number of Hard Drives: 2
> Hard Drive Member 1: Hitachi HDT725032V
> Hard Drive Member 2: Missing hard drive
> Parent Array: Array_0000
>
> Mirrorred Data
> Status: Failed
> System Volume: No
> Volume Write-Back Cache Enabled: No
> RAID Level: RAID 1 (mirroring)
> Size: 223 GB
> Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
> Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
> Number of Hard Drives: 2
> Hard Drive Member 1: Hitachi HDT725032V
> Hard Drive Member 2: Missing hard drive
> Parent Array: Array_0000
>
> Hard Drive 0
> Usage: Non-RAID hard drive
> Status: Normal
> Device Port: 0
> Device Port Location: Internal
> Current Serial ATA Transfer Mode: Gener
> Model: Hitachi HDT725032VLA360
> Serial Number: VFM204R82D194B
> Firmware: V54OA7EA
> Native Command Queuing Support: Yes
> System Hard Drive: No
> Size: 298 GB
> Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
> Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
>
> Hard Drive 1
> Usage: Array member
> Status: Normal
> Device Port: 1
> Device Port Location: Internal
> Current Serial ATA Transfer Mode: Gener
> Model: Hitachi HDT725032VLA360
> Serial Number: VFD200R20BXGLC
> Firmware: V54OA52A
> Native Command Queuing Support: Yes
> Hard Drive Write Cache Enabled: Yes
> Size: 298 GB
> Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
> Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
> Number of Volumes: 2
> Volume Member 1: Vista & Programs
> Volume Member 2: Mirrorred Data
> Parent Array: Array_0000
>
> Hard Drive 2
> Usage: Non-RAID hard drive
> Status: Normal
> Device Port: 5
> Device Port Location: Internal
> Current Serial ATA Transfer Mode: Gener
> Model: Hitachi HDT725032VLA360
> Serial Number: VFD200R20BZ57C
> Firmware: V54OA52A
> Native Command Queuing Support: Yes
> System Hard Drive: Yes
> Size: 298 GB
> Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
> Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
>
> Hard Drive 3
> Status: Missing
>
>
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