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Author:  Cpt. Carrot [ Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:51 pm ]
Post subject:  data recovery

1) I'm dump
2) I got 2 x 2TB in RAID 1 (mirroring) with my all precious gay porn. It was running on something like Intel Rapid Storage Technology.
3) I decided to play with BIOS and switch SATA ports from RAID to regular mode
4) stupid intel's chipset didn't remember the RAID configuration when I switched back to RAID mode
5) stupid intel's software/firmware/etc can recreate RAID without "Data will be permanently removed when you create volume. Do you want to continue? Y/N"

Is there good and free soft that can recover my data? Disks are OK, but there are no partition that is recognized by Win.

Author:  Bleep [ Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: data recovery

:( You may have been hit with Intels problem
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/cougar-point-sandy-bridge-sata-error,12108.html

Author:  Cpt. Carrot [ Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: data recovery

I know about that intel's screw up. They should ship replacement MB around April. But unfortunately in this case data lost was my own stupidity...

Author:  fomenta [ Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: data recovery

Heard good things about:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/pr ... index.html
http://www.ptdd.com/ (Used to be Partition Table Doctor and used to be good -- now looks like someone bought them so idk)
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Haven't heard about but looks like it might help:
http://raidlabs.com/raid_recovery/raid_recovery.php

Also, all these look like they offer demo downloads which you can use to see whether it can recognize your data or not -- if it can, then it'll prob. be worth the time trying to find the free / full cost version of the program.

Author:  TheContinental [ Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: data recovery

you guys are gods.

Author:  Kwang! [ Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: data recovery

http://sourceforge.net/search/?q=data+recovery

Author:  Shredder [ Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: data recovery

Are you sure you cannot manually set the RAID config in BIOS and just remount the partition? This basically happened to me on my wife's PC when I flashed the M/B BIOS, she had a RAID 5 configured as the primary boot partition and the flash reset the storage controller to SATA mode. I crapped my pants a little, but when I went into the BIOS and set it back to RAID it booted right up.

Author:  Cpt. Carrot [ Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: data recovery

Thanks for help guys! Got the data back - used Recover My Files (http://www.recovermyfiles.com/)

@ RAID recovery via BIOS - apparently it's not working this way on my new MB (it did work on my previous one)...

Anyway conclusion is: F*CK RAID setup for home use. More pain than it's actually worth.

To have kind of reliable backup I set my 2 disks in a regular mode (no-fucking-RAID). Mounted one as a backup drive in Win7, mounted second drive as a folder on the first one and scheduled once a week powershell script that looks like that:
---
$tmpDate = Get-Date
$tmpDate = $tmpDate.AddDays(-8)
$tmpString = Get-Date $tmpDate -format MM-dd-yyyy

xcopy d:\folder1 d:\!backup\folder1 /E /C /Q /H /R /Y /J /I /D:$tmpString
xcopy d:\folder2 d:\!backup\folder2 /E /C /Q /H /R /Y /J /I /D:$tmpString
---
That's for my collection of gay porn + weekly system drive backup via Win7 built-in "Backup and Restore" (I'm surprised, but it works pretty good)

Author:  chinesethunda [ Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: data recovery

try recuva here http://www.piriform.com/recuva

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