the-uk-guy

Please Help.
I was using an evga 680i motherboard and had a raid 0 set up with 2 80 gig western digital raptors. The Mb took a dump on me and I purchased a new xfx 780i sli board.
However the new MB wont recognise my raid0. It would be nice to be able to use the drives again but more importantly there are some files that I need to recover from them.
I have tried everthing I can think of, it wont read them from the boot menu, disk tools wont read them I have installed my operating sytem on a new drive and even with vista running they dont show up. I have conected them to an external usb port and they read as
disk.inf:disk_device.NTx86:disk_install:6.0.6000.16386:gendisk
and when I look in volumes it comes up as

The volumes contained on this disk are listed below.
Disk: Disk 3
Type: Unknown
Status: Unreadable
Partition style: Not Applicable
Capacity: 0 MB
Unallocated space: 0 MB
Reserved space: 0 MB

Do you think that my disk drives have gone bad ?
I dont want to go buy another 680i board from evga just to read my disks, especially if the problem is with my hard drives.
Is there a way to test the hard drives before I purchase the same old motherboard ? Is there a way to reset them back to nonraid when they are not recognised by windows ? is there any way to get any info back off them ?
Any info would be great Neither EVGA or XFI or western digital have been much help , they each blame the other company, lol any suggestions would be appreciated Thanks

raptor_pa

Was this a hardware raid controlled from the motherboard? If you can find the specifications for the header and stripe size and disk order then you could recover the files using Raid Reconstructor. Hardware raids are built to the controllers options as ffar as how the disks are addressed. You will either need the same controller or rebuild for recovery with software. Raid Reconstructor is about the best priced for what it does.