I need help. After migrating to new motherboard (Gigabyte z170) everything looked good until I have installed Intel RST drivers(that came with installation disk for the motherboard). Following Intel RST install 2 out of 3 drives became unusable in a way that I have never seen before. To make it worse one of the drives was my back up HDD, so I can't get my data back.
I am really looking for advice here before biting the bullet and paying for recovery solution.
Here are details of the sytem:
3 SATA drives with Intel motherboard running Windows 10.
#1 is bootable 120 gb SSD that holds Win 10.
#2 500gb HDD with all user data
#3 500gb HDD that was back up of #2.
All drives were configured as AHCI drives on old and new motherboard. All drives are visible in BIOS of the new motherboard. Drives #2 and #3 were part of Raid-0 array which I have dismantled 4 yrs ago and created the current configuration .
The symptoms: following Intel RST install #2 and #3 drives started to show old directory structure (from Raid-0 days) with none of the shown files actually existing. Any attempt to read the files produces an error.
Rolling back to Win 10 standard AHCI drivers and reconnecting to old motherboard did not help.
Running deep scan EaseUS partition table recovery does not show correct partitions.
File recovery sees correct files but it sees 100,000 of them - it will be a hard job sorting them out and renaming properly.
Any suggestions please?
I am really looking for advice here before biting the bullet and paying for recovery solution.
Here are details of the sytem:
3 SATA drives with Intel motherboard running Windows 10.
#1 is bootable 120 gb SSD that holds Win 10.
#2 500gb HDD with all user data
#3 500gb HDD that was back up of #2.
All drives were configured as AHCI drives on old and new motherboard. All drives are visible in BIOS of the new motherboard. Drives #2 and #3 were part of Raid-0 array which I have dismantled 4 yrs ago and created the current configuration .
The symptoms: following Intel RST install #2 and #3 drives started to show old directory structure (from Raid-0 days) with none of the shown files actually existing. Any attempt to read the files produces an error.
Rolling back to Win 10 standard AHCI drivers and reconnecting to old motherboard did not help.
Running deep scan EaseUS partition table recovery does not show correct partitions.
File recovery sees correct files but it sees 100,000 of them - it will be a hard job sorting them out and renaming properly.
Any suggestions please?