I had a normally functioning RAID 1 partition. It contained my OS and two logical drives. It is comprised of two 1TB WD Caviar drives.
While testing a Kaspersky Recovery CD I created in order to help a family member, it apparently overwrote my raid definition. When I tried to reboot, I received a "Non System Disk..." error.
After much reading I converted both drives to non-raid with the BIOS utility. When I rebooted, the OS partition appeared to be in tact but I couldn't see the two other drives. They appear as 831 GB of "Unallocated Space".
I installed the Matrix Storage Console in Windows 7 and it recognized the two drives. I asked the system to create a RAID 1 which the console promptly did and began "migration". This took nearly 6 hours. When it completed, I still had the same scenario but only one drive showed in Windows disk management with the same unallocated space and a 100GB active partition which holds the in-tact OS.
Is there still a possibility that the unallocated partition contains all of my data (was drive D: and E:)? Would the RAID build, which obviously didn't detect a valid existing RAID and built a new one, have kept the unallocated space in tact as is?
I have tried to use a couple partition recovery utilities which have not identified the other two partitions and I have turned the machine off so as not to do any more damage than I may have already done.
Thank you.