Question on RAID 5 recovery

[rDub]

hello,

I have a system that has crashed, specifically one of the video cards and motherboard died (bad cooling on the video card fried itself and the motherboard). 

For storage:  I have a pair of SSDs in RAID 0 for the OS (which I don't need to recover, I can just reinstall) but my data was stored on 4 2TB drives in RAID 5.  I would really like to try to recover the data if possible.  As far as I know the drives are fine but I do not know any of the settings for the RAID.  I have read some of your site and some of these posts which make it seem like it is possible but may be a slow process.  I have ordered replacement hardware and have been told by GIGABYTE (mb manufacturer) that the data will not be recoverable if i try to recreate the RAID array.  So far I have done nothing to the drives.

In case it would be of any assistance:  The motherboard was a GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD4P LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard.  The 4 drives are SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3EG HD203WI 2TB 5400 RPM SATA 3.0.  I have not yet removed the old motherboard and drive from the case so I know the SATA ports that each drive was connected to if that will help.

Any suggestions or tips would be appreciated.  I assume from reading your site that I will eventually need to purchase a copy of iRecover Professional, but if there are any other suggestions to ensure that the recovery process goes smoothly I would appreciate it.

[Tom]

Well, it is essentially quite simple. Make sure you have a machine that has Windows running and connect the former RAID disks to that system, as individual disks. Then run iRecover and see what can be found. There should be no need to know any of the RAID's details (stripe size etc.), that may be necessary later on if the recovery does not go according to plan.