[Ham-Computers] Recognizing SATA drives from failed RAID array

[James B]

Get a USB to SATA Adapter and attach one of the drive(s) as an external drive...

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Mike D.<hrg at cifnet.com> wrote:
> Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard
> Windows XP Pro
>
> I had two Seagate 250 GB SATA hard drives on the Promise controller in RAID
> 1 (mirroring). There was also a Maxtor 300 GB SATA drive on the VIA
> controller for data storage. The system booted from the RAID array.
>
> There was a critical RAID array failure. I deleted the RAID array in BIOS
> and tried to boot from one of the Seagate drives. Neither drive allowed me
> to boot. I tried to repair the Windows XP OS and that didn't work. I
> installed a new 1 tb Seagate SATA drive on the Promise controller as a

>
> I want to bring the data from the former RAID drives to the new 1 TB boot
> drive. I would appreciate your suggestions. Thank you.
>