Raid hdd failure

Leorot

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Hello,

Please help me with the following issue: in my old computer with win xp i have a raid volume with 2 hdd 160gb each. One of them has a failure which stops my old pc from starting. I pulled that hdd from the old system and connected it on my new system, which runs windows 8.1 Problem is, it cannot be seen in \my computer/

When i use disk management, it shows up, but i am being asket to initialize it. When I do that, i get this error: data error - cyclic redudancy check.

I do not want to format this hdd, i just want to make it work again and still have the original data on it.

Any programs able to do that ? Thank you for help.
 
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I presume it's raid 0, which means half the data is on one hdd half is on the other. They only work as a pair. One goes down, all the data is lost, that's the risk with raid 0. You may be able to pay a data recovery company to extract the data from the hdd, but whether they can reconstruct thecraid volume is another matter.
I presume it's raid 0, which means half the data is on one hdd half is on the other. They only work as a pair. One goes down, all the data is lost, that's the risk with raid 0. You may be able to pay a data recovery company to extract the data from the hdd, but whether they can reconstruct thecraid volume is another matter.
 
Solution
yes, intel raid 0. i tried to access my hdd with hd tune pro and it can see it, but cant see nothing inside hdd. probably because hdd is locked into raid volume ?
 
i pulled from my old system the second hdd, the one that was green/healthy. In my win 8 rig i get the same error as for the faulty hdd, which means there are compatibility issues between a win xp raid 0 and windows 8.1

problem is, i tried to run some hdd tools on my faulty hdd, only for reading. nothing came up, so i put it back into the original pc. before removing the faulty hdd, at bootup the pc said: raid 0 - bootable. even if one of the drives had a failure. now i get raid 0 - not bootable.

what can i do ?