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RAID controller failure

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Hello,

I have a computer with me that had two HDD in RAID 1. The motherboard however has decided to pack up on me and because this is not a server motherboard with removable backplanes or anything i cannot fix the controler without replacing the motherboard. The motherboard is quite old and is no longer for sale.

Seeing as I cannot get the same controller, is there any way i can still recover the data?

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You may however be able to get another M’Board

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With the same Model RAID Controller on it or a updated Model of that RAID Controller.

Without knowing which M’Board it is it’s impossible to say however. 😉

Also there are Data Recovery Programs which can recover RAID Data from individual disc’s but it’s neither cheap or straight forward to use.

http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com.au/raid-recovery/

Col

Mirrored Drives

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If drives are IDE or SATA, you should be able to connect one of them to another PC and retrieve data.

Thank you…

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Thanks for the replies,

I found a refurbished board for $20 and it works.

Willcomp… Are you saying that it is that easy to recover data from a RAID 1 controler failure?

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