Restore invalid dynamic disk in raid

Mr-Turbo

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So i had a nas with windows 2008 until about a week ago when it wouldn't boot past classpnp.sys anymore, it took me a while to figure out what the problem was and i even installed windows 7 which also failed to boot. It was when i took all my drives out with the idea to mount them as external drives to another computer that i discovered that one of the drives i had in raid 0 was dying, i managed with a bit of luck to make an image of the failing disk and i have written the image to another disk of the same size.

My nas now boots again but the drive i wrote the image to is displayed as Invalid, and the other 2 drives are showing up as Foreign, i'm now trying to restore my raid 0, just so i can get my data back so i can store it on a raid 5 this time and not make the same stupid choice to put important data on a raid 0 again, but i don't know were to start with this. I know the data is still there but i don't know how to acces it.

If anyone can help me with this it would be greatly appreciated.

I have included a picture of the Disk Management window, i hope it may be of any help in describing my problem.
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Solution
So you are saying "i managed with a bit of luck to make an image of the failing disk". What software did you use to take the image? Did it report any read errors?

If indeed you pulled a high quality image then you can reconstruct your RAID0 using data recovery tools. DMDE.com, R-Studio, or UFSexplorer are fairly popular for this type of recovery.
You are very lucky to have even gotten it to boot again, with RAID 0....; a MB/Intel RST or WIndows software RAID is just a quick total data loss waiting to happen anyway. (Or was this from a Windows Server 2008, from an actual server, using a Perc6 /LSI hardware RAID card, or similar?)

Get your data recovered/stored safely elsewhere while you still have access to the data, you can worry about nuking/getting the RAID set back up correctly again afterward.

As 4 tb drives are now only $120 or so....; I've seen 1 tb drives for $25-$30 if you enjoy tinkering with RAID setups...

Park your truly valuable data in a free cloud account somewhere...(encrypt it first if paranoid)
 

Mr-Turbo

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I didn't store my os on the raid 0, the failed harddrive just prevented my pc from booting at all, when i took it out it would boot fine but i still can't acces my data as i can't restore the raid because it says it's invalid, so i'm still lost on how to get my data back
 

S Haran

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So you are saying "i managed with a bit of luck to make an image of the failing disk". What software did you use to take the image? Did it report any read errors?

If indeed you pulled a high quality image then you can reconstruct your RAID0 using data recovery tools. DMDE.com, R-Studio, or UFSexplorer are fairly popular for this type of recovery.
 
Solution

Mr-Turbo

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i used hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/ and i got only 3 errors of single sectors that couldn't be read but those were somewhere halfway so i don't think anything important could be damaged with it, i'll give the software you recommended a try
 

Mr-Turbo

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Thanks a lot, i used DMDE and it works perfectly, a very big thank you to you
 

Mr-Turbo

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I have one last question, i'm trying to recover complete folders with dmde as all my foto's are sorted in folders and it would be quite a pain to redo all of this but when i select a folder to be recovered it simply does nothing, when selecting a multiple files it works fine but i can't recover a folder