Motherboard fried cant transfer Raid 0
 

My motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7VAXP) got fried, sadly my boot drive was a pair of WD 80 gig caviar that were striped, raid 0 for greed and speed, OS Windows 2000 sp4.

The mobo used the Promise 20276 controller, but I understand that any controller can read the raid 0 configuration. I have put them into another system and the master comes up as 150 gig (which was what the entire striped size was) and

I found that I have a PCI controller that has the same Promise 20276 chip so I hooked the drives up on that and tried to do a Recover with the Windows 2000 disk, however I do not have an emergency repair disk so Windows cant fix this problem.

I have used Data Lifeguard Diagnostics on both drives and they tested with no errors on the quick test.

When the drives try to boot I get “NTLDR is compressed”

When I boot with windows 2000 using another drive and use administrative tools it wants to write a signature to the slave drive which so far I have cancelled.

It then shows:

Disk 1: Basic, Healthy (active), online, 149.05 MB
Disk 2: Unknown, online, 74.53 Unallocated

Any ideas on what to try to get them to stripe and work again?

Almost impossible. I will try to get you more help on this, but I doubt you can recover the data. Always do a Raid 0+1 if the data is important.