RAID 0 Repair

[jono-ats]

I have an Intel-based RAID 0 as an integral part of a Dell PC. One of the drives developed bad sectors. I was able to image the drive and recover the data. However, when I put the imaged drive in the PC, the system reports that is not a member of the RAID.

How can I "add" or "join" the repaired drive to the RAID? (I also have the Intel RAID Matrix Utility).

Thanks in advance.

Jon

[Steve]

Use Winhex to rebuild array in memory , recover data , then rebuild array with your raid utility.



PS .. Howdy neighbor , I'm down the road in birmingham

[jono-ats]

Hi neighbor,

Thanks for the quick and helpful answer.

I'm a "hardware" guy . . . . and I'm not sure how to use Winhex as you describe. Can you point to any downloadable resources that might offer a bit more detail?

Thanks & best regards,

Jon

[Steve]

http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/winhex.pdf

basically you click on specialist menu , click assemble raid system
then another menu opens , you select the drives in the raid , select the raid type ( 0 in this case ) then click ok ..
it will open another window which will be the full array , there will be
a drop down that says Access, click the arrow , and click open partition.. then wait for it to do it's magic
and of course you know NEVER NEVER write to the drives you are trying to recover

Also Runtime's Raid reconstructor works well also , but you have to
copy the entire raid to another drive ( or image ) then do the recovery on that .
Almost forgot ..R-Studio works well also

btw .. you work in a dr shop, or just a computer shop?

[jono-ats]

Steve,

Thank you for your helpful & very generous response. I'll check out the link and see if I can figure it out.

I used to own a PC shop from 1986 - 1999. We specialized in Macs and had a client base of about 6,000. i sold the business and now do DR almost exclusively.

My own specialty is component-level repair, so PC board fixes are pretty standard. I'm working on some tools for DR that I hope to have prototyped soon.

I am assembling a pretty good library of HDU firmware and SA resources. Let me know if you need anything, or PM me if you'd like me to give you a call. Allies are very hard to find in this business . . . .




Jon