Raid 0 Recovery?

[MyloWhylo]

I had a 2-disk software raid under windows 10. I wanted more hard drive space, so I reinstalled Windows. Can I just plug those two drives in again and it'll show up? Thanks.

[Crunchy Dragon]

Depending on how you set up the RAID array.

 

If it was a hardware RAID, you shouldn't have to.

 

Also, I wouldn't recommend RAID 0. If one of your drives dies, all your data goes.

[MyloWhylo]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Depending on how you set up the RAID array.

 

If it was a hardware RAID, you shouldn't have to.

 

Also, I wouldn't recommend RAID 0. If one of your drives dies, all your data goes.

It was a software raid under windows 10. And I know about all the dangers of raid 0, I'm using raid 1 in my server right now.

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, MyloWhylo said:

It was a software raid under windows 10. And I know about all the dangers of raid 0, I'm using raid 1 in my server right now.

If it was a software RAID, then you might have to reconfigure that.

[MyloWhylo]

3 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

If it was a software RAID, then you might have to reconfigure that.

So would I loose all of the data?

[Razor Blade]

At this point it is too late...It would have been really a good idea to backup your data before reinstalling. It should remount your drives as it was... but windows partition manager can be really dumb sometimes so I guess there is a chance it won't.

 

Just make sure you don't delete partitions or format anything when your messing around with partition manager

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, MyloWhylo said:

So would I loose all of the data?

I don't think so. The drives only store and read the data, even if you don't have an OS installed, the data should still exist on the drive regardless.

[MyloWhylo]

All right, I'll give it a try. Thanks for your help.

[MarcCz]

4 hours ago, MyloWhylo said:

It was a software raid under windows 10. And I know about all the dangers of raid 0, I'm using raid 1 in my server right now.

Raid is not backup!