Possible RAID chip failure

[elilaing93]

Hi, first time posting here! I've had a lot of luck finding solutions on this website, but unfortunately my problem got way too specific and I finally have to ask my own question.

I have been given to repair 2 drives in a RAID 0 array (as far as I can tell), and they can't be accessed at all, nor do they show up to any PC or disk management. With a lot of trial and error, I *think* it's the RAID chip that has failed.

When plugging in Drive 1, Windows tells me "Drive must be formatted". When plugging in Drive 2, Windows doesn't see it, but disk manager and Seatools both see the disk, with Disk Manager seeing it as "Uninitialized". This has led me to think it's probably a RAID 0 chip failure, given that both drives spin up when plugged into individual SATA connector.

When connected to the RAID chip and mounted in their enclosure, device manager doesn't see either drive, nor does Seatools.

I can't find the same model of RAID chip, nor even figure out what model the RAID chip is, so I'm at a bit of a loss. Would it be possible to run data recovery on both drives, try to obtain an ISO or even just the partial files, and somehow force the computer to parse these two data strings as a RAID 0 array virtually? Mostly I'm trying to recover any files I can from these two drives...

Thanks for any help!

 

[alceryes]

RAID 0 is called striping. Half of the data gets written to one disk, half to the other. Only when they are together in the RAID array can see/retrieve data from them.
You need the same RAID controller that was used to create the RAID in order to see the data. Also, if you have already hooked up the drives to other systems, and done ANYTHING to the drives in those systems, then your data is most likely already gone.

If the data is worth $2000+ to you, drive recovery services might be able to get the data back. Many, like drivesavers, give free estimates.