I'm fairly new to RAID and I did something foolish that I should have left well alone. My RAID1 was showing "Degraded" in red before the POST, so I deleted it and rebuilt it. I also deleted the MBR from the second drive if I recall correctly. Now Disk Management says that it needs to be initialized. Naturally there are no drive letters on these disks anymore, and it shows the entire volume as available. There were 5 partitions and several hundred GB of precious data.
i5 3750 Ivy w/ Hyper 212 EVO
16GB Corsair Vengeance PC3 12800
Asus Sabertooth z77
OCZ Vertex 4 256GB (for Win7 and applications)
Radeon 7950
HighPoint Rocket 640L SATA RAID Controller, which is running:
(2) WD Caviar Blacks 2TB (not bootable, just data)
I unplugged one of the drives immediately so I couldn't screw it up. Then I ran Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery on the other drive. As far as I can tell it backed everything up, but I can't be certain because I can't remember every single folder. These are All my pictures of the kids, irreplaceable data, etc btw. Also, the folders are all lumped together instead of being organized in their respective partitions, and many of the "Date Created" were reset to the date I recovered them.
If the Degraded state means that one of the disks was corrupted, how do I know which one to back up? Should I check the total number of files and size for each and back them both up?
If I restore the MBR in pre-boot CTR-M mode, will my data be unaffected? I really don't know what the next course of action should be so I don't want to make it worse.
Thanks for any help in advance!
i5 3750 Ivy w/ Hyper 212 EVO
16GB Corsair Vengeance PC3 12800
Asus Sabertooth z77
OCZ Vertex 4 256GB (for Win7 and applications)
Radeon 7950
HighPoint Rocket 640L SATA RAID Controller, which is running:
(2) WD Caviar Blacks 2TB (not bootable, just data)
I unplugged one of the drives immediately so I couldn't screw it up. Then I ran Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery on the other drive. As far as I can tell it backed everything up, but I can't be certain because I can't remember every single folder. These are All my pictures of the kids, irreplaceable data, etc btw. Also, the folders are all lumped together instead of being organized in their respective partitions, and many of the "Date Created" were reset to the date I recovered them.
If the Degraded state means that one of the disks was corrupted, how do I know which one to back up? Should I check the total number of files and size for each and back them both up?
If I restore the MBR in pre-boot CTR-M mode, will my data be unaffected? I really don't know what the next course of action should be so I don't want to make it worse.
Thanks for any help in advance!