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Recover My Files can get the data off a RAID array, you will have to turn RAID off on the SATA chipset to do it as it will need raw access to the disks in Windows to do it.

 

By the looks of it 2 disks got their RAID headers wiped which is why they are no longer members of the array. The other option is to recreate the RAID5 array using the same settings and disks but do not initialize the array, do the data recovery first! This is of course assuming the disks only got their headers wiped and when you reinstalled Windows it didn't do it on one of the 500GB disks, if it did Recover My Files is the only option, or similar tool.

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In short, I have a Raid 5 consisting of x4 500gb hard drives.

 

Summer was not cooperating with the over clock, so I hit the restore defaults in the bios.

 

I tried to restart, kept getting blue screen 'inacessible boot device'

 

It automatically 'repaired' itself which wasn't working, and it gave me an option to reinstall windows, so I said 'ehh, fuck it, let's see what happens' and I only expected it to touch the boot disk. But my raid is only half showing up. I have roughly 1tb of stuff on it. And it would be nice to recover it, but not to pay for it.

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My condolences. Best thing would be to ask the almighty Google for a RAID 5 recovery.

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2 minutes ago, tv15dsi said:

Have you tried restarting it? :Þ

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I would make a USB bootable Windows OS and use that to get the software and try to repair it if possible. I wouldn't be too pessimistic or optimistic though.

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1 minute ago, Zach Is Kill said:

Yes

 

I'm not a raid expert, I'm happy my RAID 1 for my simple NAS worked.
But I think there are tools out there to fix this if the raid controller isn't dead ;)

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Recover My Files can get the data off a RAID array, you will have to turn RAID off on the SATA chipset to do it as it will need raw access to the disks in Windows to do it.

 

By the looks of it 2 disks got their RAID headers wiped which is why they are no longer members of the array. The other option is to recreate the RAID5 array using the same settings and disks but do not initialize the array, do the data recovery first! This is of course assuming the disks only got their headers wiped and when you reinstalled Windows it didn't do it on one of the 500GB disks, if it did Recover My Files is the only option, or similar tool.

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52 minutes ago, Zach Is Kill said:

 

Have you not backed up your data?

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27 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Recover My Files can get the data off a RAID array, you will have to turn RAID off on the SATA chipset to do it as it will need raw access to the disks in Windows to do it.

 

By the looks of it 2 disks got their RAID headers wiped which is why they are no longer members of the array. The other option is to recreate the RAID5 array using the same settings and disks but do not initialize the array, do the data recovery first! This is of course assuming the disks only got their headers wiped and when you reinstalled Windows it didn't do it on one of the 500GB disks, if it did Recover My Files is the only option, or similar tool.

Okay, I've switched raid to ahci and now I keep getting a blue screen that says 'inaccessible boot device' and I've run into this problem twice and had to reinstall twice. I'm positive that it is booting off of my ssd with windows.

 

Restarting doesn't help.

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47 minutes ago, Zach Is Kill said:

Okay, I've switched raid to ahci and now I keep getting a blue screen that says 'inaccessible boot device' and I've run into this problem twice and had to reinstall twice. I'm positive that it is booting off of my ssd with windows.

 

Restarting doesn't help.

Okay, got past the boot error. I noticed one of the disks doesn't show up like the others, and in disk manager, it appears to be mostly unallocated. Is this normal? Or is everything toast and there's no more point in trying? Sorry its late, but I would prefer to have the data, assuming its still possible to recover, as soon as possible. EDIT: I can't download anything. Tried installing Recover My Files. Have absolutely no idea what's wrong. I have never seen this before.

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Holy shit okay, good news, found my backups of the important files. But there are some less important files that I'd like to recover from the raid. Recovermyfiles seems to be working, but its my understanding that it costs money to recover files from a raid 5. Is there any way to recover the files without spending any money?

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8 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Give testdisk a shot, its free. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Wow, coincidentally found that same program about half an hour ago. The data was successfully recovered. Backing up everything now. Thanks

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Remember, kids. Backup and image your drives.

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Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive 
Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive
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