Damaged Raid 0 success rate..

[Calamari]

Hello there...

I have a damaged intel RAID 0 partition and have run a number of possible fixes, non of which seem to be recovering the files I need...

Here's a bit of background:

- 2 1.5 TB drives, intel IHC RAID 0 working great for over a year.
- Bios on MB failed for unknown reason and marked RAID drives as standard IDE drives
- On next boot identified one of the drives and automatically wrote to it, after which drive was marked as not part of the RAID set. 
- Followed some online suggestions by removing drives from RAID volume, recreating RAID, quick format and tried to recover files, not much success
- Installed INTEL Matrix Storage Manager and tried to rebuilt RAID set there, believe software tried to "verify" drives which may have started to write to them - powered down machine
- Tried to use iRecover with RAID set set at bios, not very successful.
- Released drives from RAID set and tried iRecover in RAID mode with more success but the files I really need are marked as possibly not intact... (Unfortunately I can't open the .res file with demo version to remeber status- why not?)

So I don't know if this software will do the trick or not, but I would like to ask if anyone from the company can answer these questions:

I'm trying to recover some video footage (usually larger h264 .mov files 2-4GB from a directory called "PB-Video" I believe... Most of the files are tagged as "red" and I don't know if this is because they are damaged or the program doesn't know what to do with them.  I've included my .res file if it helps... 

I'd dearly love to have them back and would be happy to buy the product if it will get them back to me intact..

Regards,

Armando Ruggeri...

[Tom]

Given all that you did after the RAID failed (recreate, quick format etc.), things that should not have been done because they destroy data, your success rate is not going to be good. Too bad you came here so late in the process, our guides and website explain that nothing should be done to any RAID after a failure. Given the current state of the disks no prediction is possible, so all I can offer is this: give it a try (get the full version and see what can be recovered) and if it doesn't work out, here's the refund policy:
http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/FAQ_custservice.htm#F3

[Calamari]

Hi Tom,

Ya I agree, I was given some bad instructions from others and didn't look into it enough for sure...

I"ll try the software and see where it goes...

Thanks for the reply..

[Calamari]

Hi Tom,

Just wanted to let you know I purchased the software and ran a 12 hour recover with all the bells and whistles turned on and it seems to have recovered what I needed and did a really good job restoring too!

My many thanks for your help and to your entire team!

Regards,

Armando Ruggeri

P.S. I've tried to post this a number of times a keep getting the error that I posted in the last 100 second (absolutely not the case on the first attempt) or that I've already posted this reply (but it does not show up in the thread). I'll keep trying, may be something you might want to look at...

[Tom]

Excellent, well done.