Hello all I have a 2 disk raid 0 which was formatted over the top with a mirrored raid and windows server 2003 installed over the top. That is where the trouble begins. The customer is unaware of the stripe size or the model of the server the raid came out of so i am unable to search. At present i am just randomly building the raid in the hope that i find the right configuration. The raid has mdf image files on it and the image files have jpg files and gif files.
I have managed to recover some mdf files bit will not open. Iso buster have ever can recover the pictures from the image files but not all work.
Thank you all any suggestions appreciated.

I hope you are building from a copy of those drives, not the originals.

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The customer has now told me that after the format they installed linux then server 2003 over the top. Before the format the raid has server 2003 on it.

Grief to money ratio sounds way too high on this job.

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Some of image files you can still recovery in RAW mode.
Use the Winhex to rebuild raid0 in different block-size, and find image by option: Tools/Disk Tools/File Recovery By Type.../.
When you rebuild raid0 correctly, you will find a correctly image files.

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This will give very poor results in my opinion. There appears to have been 2 installations following the rebuild as a mirror, a Linux and Windows install, if you create a striped array then the live data installed to the mirror will come back as corrupt, and identifying the right parameters used by the initial RAID 0 will be very very difficult.

I agree with CK here, too much grief for a job with very little hope of success at the end of it all

2 disk raid 0 has only a few combinations. OS doesnt take up too much space, if it is pictures and documents the client wants I would be quite confident at getting them but I would charge an assessment fee.

I believe Windows 2003 uses a reserved space on the disks, not sure if its at the start or the end, but this would also complicate things.