Screwed up my Raid 0 backup drive

[911c4]

I have four 500gig drives. Two are Raid 0 (striped) and includes my Windows XP Pro system and programs.
Two drives were Raid 0 striped for data storage (large video files etc.).

OK, for my own reasons
I tried to use the appropriate Silcon Image SATARAID setup software to convert the disks back toindividual hard drives but no luck - the drives just disappeared in Windows Explorer.

So I tried to reset them back to the Raid 0 (Striped) but the Raid 0 backup drive is still not shown in Windows Explorer.

I don't know what else to do at this point. Ideally I'd get the drives back to being individual drives but right now I have no backup at all.

Any help out there?

[minsonngo]

So when your are referring to "backup" you are talking about the two HDDs used for storage?


What do you see in Disk Management?

[911c4]

Thanks for your reply!
Thanks to this forum, I figured out how to initialize and reformat the RAID 0 drive.
What I am not sure how to do is to reverse the RAID 0 process so that I end up with
two independent hard drives (instead of one RAID 0 backup drive).

PS: do you know if it is possible to copy the RAID 0 that is my c:\ drive and make an copy of it
on another drive and use that as my c:\ ?

[minsonngo]

So all you had to do is right click on the drive in disk management and initialize it right?



As for your last question... I believe there are a few programs out there that can clone the Raid 0 setup and allow you to put it on a single hard drive... I need to look around for it first.

[EzyStvy]

Acronis True Image will let you clone a Raid 0 to one drive.

[911c4]

Acronis True Image will let you clone a Raid 0 to one drive.


I tried to search for a recommendation and couldn't, so thank you very much!