No RAID Recognition after XP Reinstall

[MartinKemp]

Hi,

I've got an HP xm9300 with additional RocketRAID SATA PCI Card onboard. I have three 400Gb drives hooked up to that and 1 hooked up straight to the motherboard.

After some strange problems with USB ports and then the computer constantly restarting part way through booting windows, I tried to repair windows (which failed).

On the advice of HP, I unplugged the RAID array so that they wouldn't be touched whilst reformatting and reinstalling winxp. All went ok, and i could boot back into windows.

Having reattached the power to the drives, i restarted the machine, installed the windows drivers for the RAID card, but windows does not "see" the drive.

I believe it was in a RAID 0 format or JBOD format. I think it was RAID 0. My thinking was that since i didn't change any of the RAID bios settings, i would not have to recreate the array.

The data on those 4 drives is extremely important... It's frustrating because i know the data is on the drives, i just can't access it...

obviously, i have limited knowledge of RAID, but if anyone could help me get that data back, I'd appreciate it massively! I honestly don't know what to do next...

Many thanks,

Martin

 

[MartinKemp]

Just to follow up on this, i've downloaded Active Partition (on recommendation from another thread on the site).

The good news is that i can see my data as a "dynamic stripe" and everything seems to be there, how should i go about recovering it? i'm running a full scan at the moment, but i'd have thought that would be unnecessary given that i can see all my data there - i just need to get windows to see it!

Any thoughts?

Many thanks,

Martin