WPKenny
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I've finally replaced my motherboard and the pc is sort of up and running.
My problem now is that I can't get onto the hard drives since two years ago I set them up as RAID 0 (striped) on my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (rev 1.04).
The motherboard I have has RAID (of course) but when I try to tell it to use RAID 0 it tells me it wants to wipe the hard drives.
I'm in the process of still chasing ASUS for a replacement BIOS chip as I think that's the root of the issue on my non-working motherboard.
If I can't get the old mobo fixed I'm left with trying to recover my striped HDD's.
I've found a few programs that claim to be able to recover the disks but I can't for the life of me remember or find out at this time of night what the default stripe block was on the disks.
If anyone is better at google than me or knows of a program that might be able to guess at it and recover the disk I'd be very grateful.
I'm in the process of clearing out my external 300gig HDD so I can fit the recovered striped image on but I'm shooting in the dark until I can find the block size.
So I'm after help with any of the following:
1. A program that will recover the striped raid array and will also detect the block size. Perhaps one that doesn't need to create the whole image, it can just take starting chunks till I find te right block size?
2. A long shot but maybe I can re-flash my BIOS if someone out there has an ASUS A7N8X motherboard out there and can perhaps post me their BIOS chip (it's got AN8X2 1001.C written on it) so I can at least boot my computer and possibly replace the chips while it's running and flash my old chip? Or perhaps I can post you my BIOS if you're happier with that. I have no idea if BIOS are hot-swappable like that.
3. Somewhere that sells flashed BIOS chips to my specifications above.
Thanks in advance just for reading all this crap and double thanks if you can actually help
My problem now is that I can't get onto the hard drives since two years ago I set them up as RAID 0 (striped) on my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (rev 1.04).
The motherboard I have has RAID (of course) but when I try to tell it to use RAID 0 it tells me it wants to wipe the hard drives.
I'm in the process of still chasing ASUS for a replacement BIOS chip as I think that's the root of the issue on my non-working motherboard.
If I can't get the old mobo fixed I'm left with trying to recover my striped HDD's.
I've found a few programs that claim to be able to recover the disks but I can't for the life of me remember or find out at this time of night what the default stripe block was on the disks.
If anyone is better at google than me or knows of a program that might be able to guess at it and recover the disk I'd be very grateful.
I'm in the process of clearing out my external 300gig HDD so I can fit the recovered striped image on but I'm shooting in the dark until I can find the block size.
So I'm after help with any of the following:
1. A program that will recover the striped raid array and will also detect the block size. Perhaps one that doesn't need to create the whole image, it can just take starting chunks till I find te right block size?
2. A long shot but maybe I can re-flash my BIOS if someone out there has an ASUS A7N8X motherboard out there and can perhaps post me their BIOS chip (it's got AN8X2 1001.C written on it) so I can at least boot my computer and possibly replace the chips while it's running and flash my old chip? Or perhaps I can post you my BIOS if you're happier with that. I have no idea if BIOS are hot-swappable like that.
3. Somewhere that sells flashed BIOS chips to my specifications above.
Thanks in advance just for reading all this crap and double thanks if you can actually help