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RAID controlers
GoGeTa006:
I can see the drives in both Windows and the BIOS
and I can see them as separate drives (as you saw in the screen shot)
what I want to do is access them kureshi.
you know, just go to my computer and select either of those drives and double click and browse whatever information is on them. thats what I want to do. cause as I posted I can see both drives in the device manager and in the BIOS. but I cant access them (as u saw on the first screenshot) they do not appear in "my computer" and they do appear in the device manager as separate hard drives (not as 1 big RAID drive)
it says "unallocated"
how do I allocate them?
and as mentioned I dont want to reformat them or anything, they have precious information (and If it was deleted then I want to use recoverydr or whatever software to recover that data)
kureshii:
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on December 14, 2009, 04:21:39 PM ---it says "unallocated"
how do I allocate them?
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Right-click on the unallocated portions, New Partition (or whatever the option is labelled as). For what you want to do, "simple disk" is the most appropriate option. But you don't want to do this yet, because...
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on December 14, 2009, 04:21:39 PM ---and as mentioned I dont want to reformat them or anything, they have precious information (and If it was deleted then I want to use recoverydr or whatever software to recover that data)
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When you did the RAID creation in BIOS (assuming that's actually what you did, since I don't know if that's what you actually did), you likely wiped the drives. AFAIK there is no way to set up a RAID without first formatting it, and since the disks are now uninitialised ("unallocated" in Windows) there's good reason to believe this is what happened, if those disks originally contained data.
If you want to do any data recovery, now's the best time to do it before you do anything else to those drives. I hope you have file recovery software that can work with uninitialised drives.
Proin Drakenzol:
RAID 0 isn't really RAID, it's pure data striping. True RAID has redundancy, hence "redundant array of independent disks."
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Yes, I can be a purist, sometimes.
vuzedome:
So......you didn't backup your data first?
GoGeTa006:
--- Quote from: vuzedome on December 15, 2009, 01:20:08 AM ---So......you didn't backup your data first?
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that was supposed to be the backed up data.
and the "in queue to burn into DVD" data.
so yeah. Ill see if my recovery software can work on those, I guess ill hook em up to the main cable that goes to the motherboard, see what I can do from there.
and about the RAIDING.
I did go to the "Raid options" and created a new raid. but it did so quickly i dont know if ti actually did re-format the drives.
and I want to think Proin's words are positive and mean "your data is safe"
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