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SpaceAvenger
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I had a perfectly working system (Win 7 Pro, 1 250G SSD, 1 x 1TB HD, 1 x 1.5TB HD, 1 3TB. I had the 1TB and 1.5 TB drives configured in 2TB Raid 0 with the extra 500G on the 1.5TB drive partitioned as a seperate drive. Things were working great. All the information from the Raid was copied on the 3TB drive. I decided to get another 3TB drive and stripe it to the existing 3TB drive to increase the speed of my games and for storage. I have a seperate NAS box that I was going to use for backups/storage. I had intended to remove the 1TB drive and install it in this NAS. Yes...I know I should have backed up to the NAS first before attempting anything. Hind site is always 20/20.
So after I installed the new 3TB drive I used Acronis Drive Manager to stripe the two drives. Things went as planned. Rebooted no problem. Unfortunately, when I rebooted again, both Raids disappeared. Upon opening Disk Manager it showed all four drives as dynamic/invalid. I don't care about the 3TB drives as all the information on them was from the smaller Raid array. My ultimate goal is to either restore the smaller array or, at the very least, recover the data off that array.
I have read about using Ubuntu LiveCD to recover files from a Raid-0 but the instructions were considering that the drives were the same size and single partitions in each.
Is there a way to use Ubuntu with additional command line instructions to save the data? Would simply re-creating the same Raid-0 with these drives, thereby overwriting the metadata, work? Any other ideas?
Please refrain from informing me how bad Raid-0 is without backups. I am and have been slamming my head against the wall over this as I should have known better. I was impatient and ****ey and am paying the price for my epic stupidity.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
TIA
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So after I installed the new 3TB drive I used Acronis Drive Manager to stripe the two drives. Things went as planned. Rebooted no problem. Unfortunately, when I rebooted again, both Raids disappeared. Upon opening Disk Manager it showed all four drives as dynamic/invalid. I don't care about the 3TB drives as all the information on them was from the smaller Raid array. My ultimate goal is to either restore the smaller array or, at the very least, recover the data off that array.
I have read about using Ubuntu LiveCD to recover files from a Raid-0 but the instructions were considering that the drives were the same size and single partitions in each.
Is there a way to use Ubuntu with additional command line instructions to save the data? Would simply re-creating the same Raid-0 with these drives, thereby overwriting the metadata, work? Any other ideas?
Please refrain from informing me how bad Raid-0 is without backups. I am and have been slamming my head against the wall over this as I should have known better. I was impatient and ****ey and am paying the price for my epic stupidity.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
TIA
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