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I have two hard drives that were set up as a RAID 1 set on a Mac. My Mac died, and I replaced it with a PC running Windows 7. I can't seem to figure out a way to read the data from my disks.
I tried MacDrive, which worked great for non-RAID disks, but it doesn't see either of these disks at all.
These disks are in a Rosewill 8-bay external box, which comes with a utility called SATARAID5. The problem is, that software doesn't run under Windows 7.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get to this data? I don't care if I end up with a RAID set or not. I just need the files.
Yes, borrowing another mac would ensure you could get the data off. I agree it is odd that either drive could not be read. I wonder if others have had this issue with os x software raid 1. – Troggy – 2010-01-18T02:42:01.997
or, maybe MacDrive isn't "smart" enough to understand OS X software RAID 1 hard drive signatures? gcoates have you tried emailing them to ask? – Jeff Atwood – 2010-01-18T02:44:42.007
I tried that software that you linked, but it doesn't even see the physical drives. (Windows 7 does see the physical drives. They show up in Disk Management. I just can't do anything with them. It shows 3 partitions for each disk, which must indicate that the Mac RAID was doing something special as there was only one RAID partition.) – gcoates – 2010-01-18T03:18:59.183
It probably sees 3 partitions because it's reading everything wrong as it's shifted by whatever the RAID did. – Marcin – 2010-01-18T03:21:00.240
2I ended up having to borrow another Mac. – gcoates – 2010-01-20T03:11:24.150