Hi, I have a Dell XPS400 machine, with Win XP on a two-disk RAID0. Each disk is 149GB so the total capacity is 298GB. I think the system has a Intel hardware RAID, with Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v7.6.1.1001 ICH9R.
Some time ago, the system went into hibernate, as it has many times. However, this time, when I woke it up, it failed. In the RAID Bios it says that the status of the Raid volume is "Failed". Only one of the two physical harddrives is now a "Member Disk", the other is a "Non-Raid Disk".
I am not sure what is wrong - is it the harddrive that has failed, or the Raid controller?
My main goal is to recreate the data on the drives - mainly pictures. I have played a little with the data recovery software R-Tools. I am able to make file images of both harddrives. However, when I try to combine the two images in R-Tool, to get the data back, I am not able to get it right. Small pictures less than the stripe size of 128kB come out good. However, larger pictures do not come out right - some are corrupted, some are not corrupted but they seem like they are composed of stripes of two separate pictures. So I think I have some Raid offset between the two harddrives wrong. Would it be possible to get the details as to how the Raid0 is set up? So that I may be able to combine the two harddrive images correctly?
Attached is a photograph of the Raid Bios error message.