Re: Recovering files from RAID 0 set

On 11 May 2006 pentesticle@yahoo.com wrote:

> I have a situation where one of the people working an investigation
> attempted to turn on a computer and a static shock arced through the
> on-off switch. The PC would not recognize any of the RAID drives inside.
> I pulled the CMOS battery and unplugged, then the BIOS found the drives
> but I'm guessing the MBR is bad or something because it detects the
> drives, but is unable to find the OS.

I wonder if the RAID set in question was software or hardware created.  As
the motherboards that have on boartd RAID support are quite common now,
based on information you provided, most obvious explanation that I can
think of is that your system had a RAID set created in BIOS.  When the
power surge occured (or when you reset the CMOS battery), it lost it's
BIOS settings, including on board RAID settings.

If the motherboard indeed does RAID, then I'd consider cloning the disks
for backups, and attempting to re-create the RAID using on-board BIOS.

> I need to recover some data from the RAID 0 set. What would the best
> method be to do this and would it be likely that I can recover the MBR
> to boot the system?
>
> Windows XP SP2, SATA RAID 0 drives...
>
> Thanks for any help


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