Transferring a JBOD Array to another computer

[KoRWraith]

The motherboard on my computer recently stopped working and so I've bought a new one to replace it. The problem is that the new motherboard is a different type, and so its not as simple as plugging everything back into it.

As you no doubt know, since it is a different motherboard the previous windows installation does not work on it and so the hard drives need to be formatted. The problem is, I need data off the hard drives.

When I switch the computer on I get a message telling me the JBOD Array has failed, and as such it is now offline, so nothing can see it. Does anyone know of a way of retreiving data off the JBOD?

 

[wolluf]

No experience of this sort of array - so just a suggestion. Can data recovery app (eg, getdataback) run against each drive individually retrieve data?

 

[wahnula]

You will need a working install of Windows on another machine. Do NOT plug your data drives in until you get Windows working on a separate drive, try the following freeware:

http://getfreesofts.com/soft/449/39090/UFS_Explorer_Professional.html

and see what you can find. Chances are unless you get the exact RAID controller on a separate add-in card and it recognizes the JBOD array the spanned files are history, but you may recover the whole files on each disk.

Other solutions are ZeroAssumptionRecovery and Davory.

JBOD does not offer any fault-tolerance, once you recover the data (I'm the positive sort ) you might want to re-think your disk arrangements:

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/jbod.htm

Best of luck...

Tony