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    How to recover data from dead laptop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Talosm, Aug 7, 2008.

  1. Talosm

    Talosm Newbie

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    Hello all

    My Sager PC finally died and refuses to POST. Unfortunately while the hard drives still spin I had a raid 0 set up in the laptop, and it had been on the fritz for so long I was not able to get a data back up before my pc died. I have an external enclosure but that just shows that it can read that drive in a RAW format. Which makes sense considering the data was spread on 2 drives.

    Any suggestions about how you recover raid 0 hard drives if you dont happen to have an extra laptop with a dual hard drive set up laying around?

    thank you for your help

    Michael
     
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    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Even with a dual drive enclosure, you need the RAID capable chipset in order to get the data.

    I'm guessing that you had the Intel ICH RAID capable chipset. That means you should be able to plug those two drives into ANY desktop or laptop that has an Intel chipset with RAID built in and enabled. Intel uses, I think, a RAID system that works across all their lines.

    Do you have access to another computer that uses an ICH RAID capable chipset and has it currently enabled?
     
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  3. Talosm

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    For what it was worth..was intel...

    Sager 9860-S Notebook
    Processor: 3.4GHZ P4 LGA775, 800 FSB w/ HT

    Unfortunately no other raid computers around. (even with all the PC's in my house none of them use a raid set up).
     
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