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I think i can help you out, and probably you can get all your data back.
Just don't touch the disks. Don't write to it. Best is to leave them disconnected for the time being. In no circumstance "initialize" the drives in the Disk Management screen; this would lead to dataloss because it overwrites data on the disks. Remember: with them being seperate disks again windows doesn't know this disk is part of some RAID-array; it think its totally blank and will let you format it if you choose to. DO NOT.
Second, you cannot have RAID05. Either you have RAID5 or you have RAID0, because for RAID0+5 or RAID 5+0 you would need more disks.
To recover your files i can use BSD operating system to use software RAID to reconstruct the RAID array, and acces the NTFS partition. This will require some time though, and also requires me that i access via SSH to your pc. Basically, it requires you to trust that i'm not doing anything malicious. I leave it to you should you desire my help. The procedure is - if all goes well - without risk because no single byte will be written to the disks themselves. If it works, you can copy all data via the network, so you need another pc on the network + enough storage space.
And don't use RAID as an alternative to having a backup; RAIDs themselves can fail like in your case; redundancy won't help you against that. You really need a backup.
Just don't touch the disks. Don't write to it. Best is to leave them disconnected for the time being. In no circumstance "initialize" the drives in the Disk Management screen; this would lead to dataloss because it overwrites data on the disks. Remember: with them being seperate disks again windows doesn't know this disk is part of some RAID-array; it think its totally blank and will let you format it if you choose to. DO NOT.
Second, you cannot have RAID05. Either you have RAID5 or you have RAID0, because for RAID0+5 or RAID 5+0 you would need more disks.
To recover your files i can use BSD operating system to use software RAID to reconstruct the RAID array, and acces the NTFS partition. This will require some time though, and also requires me that i access via SSH to your pc. Basically, it requires you to trust that i'm not doing anything malicious. I leave it to you should you desire my help. The procedure is - if all goes well - without risk because no single byte will be written to the disks themselves. If it works, you can copy all data via the network, so you need another pc on the network + enough storage space.
And don't use RAID as an alternative to having a backup; RAIDs themselves can fail like in your case; redundancy won't help you against that. You really need a backup.
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I think i can help you out, and probably you can get all your data back.
Just don't touch the disks. Don't write to it. Best is to leave them disconnected for the time being. In no circumstance "initialize" the drives in the Disk Management screen; this would lead to dataloss because it overwrites data on the disks. Remember: with them being seperate disks again windows doesn't know this disk is part of some RAID-array; it think its totally blank and will let you format it if you choose to. DO NOT.
Second, you cannot have RAID05. Either you have RAID5 or you have RAID0, because for RAID0+5 or RAID 5+0 you would need more disks.
To recover your files i can use BSD operating system to use software RAID to reconstruct the RAID array, and acces the NTFS partition. This will require some time though, and also requires me that i access via SSH to your pc. Basically, it requires you to trust that i'm not doing anything malicious. I leave it to you should you desire my help. The procedure is - if all goes well - without risk because no single byte will be written to the disks themselves. If it works, you can copy all data via the network, so you need another pc on the network + enough storage space.
And don't use RAID as an alternative to having a backup; RAIDs themselves can fail like in your case; redundancy won't help you against that. You really need a backup.
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