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I wanted to thank everyone for your feedback. Especially BadBigBen for those wonderful helpful links and all of that information. It looks like I have a full recovery now I am just trying to get all of the data off the spanned drives so I can break the span and reclaim those drives for backup...

I figured I would give you an update in case you are wondering. The battle continues. I have been trying all of the software suggested by "BadBigBen". I tried "GetDataBack" and it looked very promising unfortunately when it went to scan the drive it hung and locked the OS so bad I had to logout...

As it turns out it was a span and not a stripe (I got lucky). As I mentioned I used the Windows 7 disk manager to create it and I didn't know if it was span or stripe. I got my new hard drives in and had enough room to play with the drives. I ran PhotoRec and it was recovering all of the files...

Thanks for your response even if its bad news. You know I knew I was living life on the edge without a backup on those drives. I was waiting for the cost of hard drives to come back down to a normal price before making a backup array (foolish me). Although it probably wouldn't have helped since...

I know this is a long read, I tried to give all the information on my situation I could think of so bear with me... I had a 5 hard drive span made using Window 7 Ultimate 64bit. This was a secondary data only drive not my primary boot drive. My motherboard died and I was forced to replace...