Recovering a Windows RAID 0 array

I setup a RAID 0 array with two 2T SSD disk through windows Disk Manager. The motherboard died and I'm trying to setup the array on the new PC I just built. Everything I've managed to find said the array would just come back up on the new PC, but it's not. I downloaded a tool that scanned the array and verified all the files are there, but it's $200 if I want to actually recover them from the array. My critical stuff is backed up, but I have a ton of other stuff on there I'd rather not lose.
I have not tried setting up again in Disk Manager for fear of losing the files, is it possible to set it up w/o losing the files?
If I need a 3rd party tool to do this, are there any suggestions?

TIA

Haven't worked with RAID 0, my RAID 1 is 2 x 2TB drives in a NAS box. I also was given an older computer with 2 x 500GB drives running as RAID 1. Since it's a new motherboard I'd check the BIOS for whether to boot as RAID or AHCI. Seems to be that once drives are set for RAID and Windows installed they won't boot with the BIOS set as AHCI.

Berton said:

Since it's a new motherboard I'd check the BIOS for whether to boot as RAID or AHCI.

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The last motherboard (and this one) supported RAID, but there was a problem with the last one and I couldn't get it configured properly which is why I setup the RAID in Windows Drive Manger. It's not as good as the motherboard raid, but when ASRock told me they weren't sure why it wasn't working I set it up through windows rather than beat a dead horse. On the new rig I can see both drives in Drive Manager but they don't show up as being joined. I should also add that this is not my boot drive, but the BIOS is set to AHCI.

For what I know there are 3 Kinds or RAID: BIOS RAID, Hardware RAID and Software RAID.
I used to have a RAID 0 array set under BIOS.
I bought a new MB, set RAID mode instead of AHCI under BIOS, installed in same order and once booted the array was back.
Never set RAID under Windows that should be a Software RAID.
Don't you have a drive image backup of your RAID array?

Not a fan of software RAID myself, but I had to get it working, and it was over 6 years ago. I have the critical contents backed up, but I don't have a full image backup. The drives are in tact and the contents are still on there. I used a program called Stellar Data Recover, it found everything with no problem. I could pay for the tool and restore the contents to my NAS, but that's $200 I'd rather not spend if I don't have to.

jstrike965 said:

Not a fan of software RAID myself, but I had to get it working, and it was over 6 years ago. I have the critical contents backed up, but I don't have a full image backup. The drives are in tact and the contents are still on there. I used a program called Stellar Data Recover, it found everything with no problem. I could pay for the tool and restore the contents to my NAS, but that's $200 I'd rather not spend if I don't have to.

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If you can get any live linux distro working then ensure mdadm and ntfs-3g are installed (on a live distro you can install stuff but changes are not persistent i.e all changes vanish at shutdown. Then RAID 0 stuff is easily visible whether windows (NTFS) or not. So you should have FREE access to your data. The main problem is if your RAID 0 uses that wretched new proprietary Windows file system -- unlikely but it's possible.


Incidently I've RAID 0 running for 3 legacy HDD's (different capacities) which have been running for donkeys years on a NAS -- zero problems and perfectly accessible for Windows clients vis SAMBA, SFTP, File explorer, Filezilla etc.

Note also NAS data should also be backed up regularly -- while these things are usually highly reliable hardware can and does fail at times, as well as human error (fortunately hardware fails a lot less often than one might suppose) and will gurantee to fail at the one time you either haven't got or were just about to take a backup.

Cheers
jimbo