yeah i know that raid 0 is not set up to recover easy, or at all. so the problem is that one of the drives in a 2 drive raid 0 partition seems to have failed on one of my friends computer and it would be very nice to recover whatever can possibly be recovered. when trying to recover stuff from the partition, and leading up to the failure, one drive was clicking really badly (i assume that is the drive that failed). so my question is, is it possible to recover data from a raid 0 partition one drive at a time? purhaps make an image file of the good drive then work on trying to recover whatever is possible from the bad drive? the partition is seen as a 0 byte drive with "raw" formatting in windows which says the drive is corrupt when trying to look at the contents. it would be nice to recover any data possible so any suggestions would be very helpful, thanks.

Well, to my knowledge... if an individual drive in a RAID0 array goes down, the whole thing is gone. In a RAID0 array, or stripe array, the data being written to the array is broken up into stripes and written to seperate drives. This is why RAID0 is known for it's higher performance, speed-wise, compared to other RAID configurations. Therefore, if one drive goes down, you lose ALL data that was in the array to begin with.

Anyone here is free to correct me if I'm wrong, and please do... but as far as I'm concerned, it sounds like you're friend's up sh*t creek man... sorry

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HERE is a site that explains in detail. Was your buddy getting any "SMART status Bad" errors during bootup?

Yea. Hes pretty much out of luck. Should have run 4 drives in 0, 1

Quote: Originally Posted by Kosterman Yea. Hes pretty much out of luck. Should have run 4 drives in 0, 1

You really only need three. 2 in the RAID array, 1 for the backup of the array. If he did a backup of the array, he is fine... assuming that image is not stored on said array.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kosterman Yea. Hes pretty much out of luck. Should have run 4 drives in 0, 1

with his board this would not work anyways since he only 2 sata ports for each of his 2 raid controllers. he was not getting any reports of a drive going bad but it was making noise so he got a drive to back it all up but the problem happened before he was able to get that drive set up.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jobistober Anyone here is free to correct me if I'm wrong, and please do... but as far as I'm concerned, it sounds like you're friend's up sh*t creek man... sorry

i knew that recovery was unlikely at best and he does too, but i just thought i would put it out there to see if anyone had any good ideas.

anyone have any ideas on this before we consider it a lost cause?