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Is data retrievable if raid drives die?
When you booted into the USB, did you change your boot options in BIOS? If you did, go back and put it just like it was before you changed it.
I believe it was Raid 0
no I actually didn't change the boot options today when I tried the stick , it was set to hard disk raid 0 as first option, then the cd/ DVD and third was USB stick... but it obviously bypassed the first two and went with the stick.
what is odd though, is the stick won't boot now to a screen showing files either after that first successful attempt. Now I get the windows logo for a few seconds followed by a blank screen
my disks are not making strange noises, I believe that is a good thing regarding retrieval chances
In BIOS do you have the option for hard disk raid 0 ? If so set that as your first boot device.
Have you done any backups or images of your system? If you are in Raid 0 and lost a hard drive, I know of no way to recover your data. This is one of the problems with running Raid 0.
No the option appears to have gone.. it used to say raid and now it says sata.. there is no raid option now, I checked.
i have been really lax on backups/ images...last one was embarrassingly win 7 in 2013.. i was actually going to do one tomorrow .. we do back up photos etc to an external drive but I haven't been good at backing up email folders. I also have some genealogy documents I have paid for which I held electronically on there and should have backed up.
Could it be the disc controllers and not the disks that went? I am wondering if I can get the data professionally retrieved
A professional recovery is a possibility. I am not sure though with Raid. However, it would cost several thousand dollars usually for a professional Data recovery option.
Do you show both hard drives in bios or just one?
Just one I think
we have a pc store here called PC world say they do disk recovery ..I guess I need to enquire.. they are a big chain