Weird raid recovery attempt

Wack_B5

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Hi All,

I have a problem...

In rebuilding my PC, I accidentally included one HD into a new RAID0 that was not supposed to be included. I immediately removed it from the RAID0 array.
Re-formed the array with the 2 drives that were supposed to be, installed Windows and attempted to access the data on the 3rd drive which originally contained all my pictures only to find that it's empty.

I'm not too sure where to start. I'm currently scanning the drive with Stellar Pheonix and hope to recover the files but will probably loose the structure (folders etc.) (Recuva refuses to scan the drive and asks me to format it before I scan it... yeah right !!!)
(incidentally, does anyone know which Stellar Pheonix option I should pick to recover the structure ?)

Does anyone have any tips that might help recover the drive's content and it's folder structure (before Is end the drive in to a data recovery company).

PS Yes I have backups but they are a little older and I'd like to try to recover the current data.

Thanks for your help

 
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Rugnir_Viking

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Oh dear. I'm thinking that it probably tried to spread the folders across the ?three? drives when you added it, and now you took it out you have random chunks of files on all three? I'm no RAID expert though. Perhaps it might be worth adding it again and seeing if it will get the data
 

TyrOd

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This shouldn't be the case.

The file system information will be corrupted because of the RAID configuration overwriting it.
The data itself should be possible to recover.

Unfortunately no data recovery company can guarantee recovering the files system information, folder structure, etc...
If it's been overwritten it's gone, but the raw files should still be there as long as you didn't write new data to the RAID before removing the drive. Since you said you removed it immediately you should be okay.
 
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