RAID 0

I have a customers year old Gateway with 2 – 250 gig SATA drives. It came from Gateway set up with RAID-0 from the Intel controller on the motherboard. I have run hardware Diagnostics on both drives and they appear to be in good shape.

The computer will not boot to the OS. It says “Disk Read Error reboot computer”. When the computer boots, the menu for the Raid controller pops up saying RIAD is not set up and shows the 2 drives. Obviously it has lost it’s RAID configuration.

If I go into the RIAD configuration and re-set it up will all the data be lost that is on the drives? Is there is a special procedure to use when re-setting it up, to save the data? What’s the best guess as to why it lost the RAOD setup?

Thanks

yag