Hard drive issue

[daanji]

Last night, I got disconnected on all 10 clients due to my
ISP dying. I closed out all my wow clients. A few minutes later,
I got a few dozen system critical errors complaining about
Some corrupted io. It gave me an option to scan the disk to repair
Or restart. I selected restart. It boots and gets to
windows 7 disk recovery screen. I try some of the options
, but says it cannot repair the disk.

Currently, I cannot get to the desktop nor can I see the C drive.
Is the anything I can do? If windows boots, surely it can't
Be completely dead.

Here are some info on my machine

Windows 7 64 bit ultimate
Primary drive 2x 64 GB Kingston SSD raid 0

[Ñightsham]

Have you tried any 3rd party raid recovery software?
http://www.freeraidrecovery.com/

Worth checking into before having to star over. I've been successful doing so on regular HD's, however have not had to do a raid recovery yet.

[daanji]

Thanks for the input. I have not heard of that utility, i will try it out tonight.

So far I've discovered a few tidbits.

First, according to my RAID controller, both drives are operational, healthy, and bootable.

When I try to boot normally, instead of going into Windows 7, I am shown the System Recovery Options screen.

My operating system is not listed, so I try to load my Intel ICH10R AHCI drivers - not luck.

However, through this dialog I can access My Computer and see all of my drives. I can see "C:" with the correct amount of used and free space. When I click on it, it shows as empty though.

I fiddled with Windows 7 system recovery and tried a variety of drivers - still no luck.

Currently, I have the utility you mentioned installed and both SSDs transplanted to my old machine. It is currently analyzing my drives.

I'm not too worried if I can't recover - I didn't have anything important stored on my RAID0 drives. I am mostly dreading having to re-install everything and setup everything again.

I do have all my isBoxer configurations backed-up though.

[daviddoran]

I use a RAID0 setup on 2 ssds as well, and I feel your pain. Since we are effectively doubling our chances to lose data, I back up my entire C drive with an image based backup software. I use Acronis TrueImage, i can create a full image of the drive, and if anything ever happens, i just restore that image to a new drive or array and I'm back in business.