Raid 0 Formatted

[surfydell]

Some plonker installed a fresh windows 7 install on my raid 0 stripe instead of my C drive. Will it be possible to recover the files and folder structure.

 

[rolli59]

Professional data recovery service maybe but not by any free tools since the stripe is formatted on install.

 

[surfydell]

Hi Folks, Some twit installed a windows 7 install over my Raid 0 Data drive instead of my C Drive. Is there any way of getting this data and associated file structure back. Many Thanks.

Matt

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I'm really not sure why anyone would use RAID 0 as a storage solution. There is really not a worse way to store data.

Pretty sure whomever was working on your computer had also never seen this and so it was logical to install Windows on the RAID 0 array since RAID 0 is for speed.

If you have a hard drive go bad or something like this happens then you see why RAID 0 is a bad idea for storage. You lose your data and no you can't get it back.

The logical way to use RAID 0 is for installing Windows and programs on and then you would have another drive for storage of things you can not afford to lose.

You should be using RAID 1 if you wanted to use RAID for storage.

 

[Pyree]

This next topics has been merged by Pyree
■ Recover data from hardware raid0
■ Stuffed Raid 0
■ Formatted Raid 0