RAID 0 Hard-drives - how to recover?

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In an old system I had a couple of hard drives in raid zero. The system is burned so I wish to take my files from the drives.. how do I do this the easiest way?

I gather I cannot just plug them in another raid controller on another system (but I do not know), so I wonder if there is another way? Perhaps a component, a gizmo, I can buy and just dock them to and get access via usb or whatever? Or is there some data recovery company that can handle this for me?

Any inputs is much appreciated.

NB: The disks were the system drive (for a windows XP), and I think they were formatted in fat32.
 
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The real answer is that you are very unlikely to be able to use them on another different controller, even if you use the same brand controller (say Adaptec for example) there is a very limited group of controllers that allow you to change out the set of drives to the new controller.

You could take a look at Raid Reconstructor. The trial version is free and should tell you if you can rebuild the array since neither has failed, unfortunately at that point you would have to spend $99 for the full version to do it, assuming it is worth that much to you.
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The real answer is that you are very unlikely to be able to use them on another different controller, even if you use the same brand controller (say Adaptec for example) there is a very limited group of controllers that allow you to change out the set of drives to the new controller.

You could take a look at Raid Reconstructor. The trial version is free and should tell you if you can rebuild the array since neither has failed, unfortunately at that point you would have to spend $99 for the full version to do it, assuming it is worth that much to you.
 
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I assume that if these were boot volumes, that it is some form of Hardware based RAID, that is that was configured via a BIOS extension.

The easiest way would be to find the exact same raid controller and connect the drives
If its on the motherboard (say Intel) then using another Intel board (that has RAID) "should" allow you to rebuild the RAID volume. Try using the software approach as indicated below. Just dont let Windows Disk Manager have access to the drive only use the Intel's RST client.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/000006338.html
As indicated in the link, make sur you have RST installed before connecting the drive.

You may need to configure it in Option ROM (BIOS), but try the software approach first.

If its another controller then you will need to same controller or at least the same chipset.

I can't say I have ever done this but you can try the above method.
Lastly, If the data is that important, you may want to try a data recovery service, at least they have a lot more means to do the recovery should something go wrong.
 
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@psoohoo, I've tried that probably a hundred times on a different and even identical motherboard controllers (and even the same motherboard controller once bios flashed) and it does not work.

Since both drives are assumed to be intact, there is a chance that they can be reconstructed although unlikely. This is just one of many reasons that motherboard based RAID is a bad idea and it is not used outside consumer uses except in rare cases where back up is almost constantly done.
 
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