(Arj) wrote in message . com...
Hi,
Have you considered using someting like Knoppix Live CD or
MandrakeMove. These are Linux OS CDs that can run the OS from the CD
and read NTFS and can burn to CD to recover the pixs.

I have done a recovery using Knoppix from a FAT32 partition but not
RAID.

I can´t test it as I am in here because my RAID0 with 2 WD 80GB
crashed, looks like it has killed the HDDs.

Arj
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(Cameron) wrote in message . com...
My system "had" two Seagate 80mb SATA drives set-up in a RAID 1
(mirror) configuration on an ASUS A7N8X Delux motherboard, using the
on-board Silicon Image Sil 3112A RAID controller. Several weeks ago my
system crashed and I was unable to boot or otherwise access my disk
drives. I did not have everything backed up, because I stupidly

Chris,

First thing I did was to try connecting the drive stand alone. The
RAID utility can see it but Windows XP will not see it, even if a
fresh installation is conducted using F6,S, etc Windows cannot find
any hard disks attached. I may buy another SATA drive and try to setup
the array again, as a last resort. The thing is I don't think the
Primary drive was broken before I shorted it out and if everything
else was okay it should have rebuilt itself to start with. Thanks for
your advice man.

Arj,

I haven't tried the Linux CD's but I have used the Windows CD several
times and have also tried a Windows install with the SATA drivers onto
an IDE drive. Windows could only see the IDE drive. So, I doubt the
Linux CDs will see the drive either but could be worth a try if the
SATA drivers for Linux are all powerful and can see the disk where the
Windows drivers coluldn't. Thanks for your help.