Recover Data From RAID 0 Drives with OS Installed

The power supply in an older machine recently failed so I built a new machine. Now I'd like to recover the data from the 2 x 80GB RAID0 drives I had installed in the older pc. The RAID0 SATA HDDs have Windows XP Pro installed on them.

Can anyone recommend a way to access these drives and their data? Can it be done by connecting them to my new machine? Ideally I'd like to boot them and run windows to make things easier, but I don't really want to revive the old machine or buy parts for it.

 

You are going to have to reinstall XP so it works with the new systemboard, no matter what. The XP on those drives will just bluescreen because of the changed hard disk controller and I?O part.
Worse, the RAID is tied to the specific hard disk controller in the old PC and the only tools I know of are (not free) data recovery tools: http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm
Did you think to try using the new power supply in the old box?

 

Well, it looks like maybe I should buy a cheap power supply and just put the old machine back together. Based on everything I've read I think its the least expensive way to accomplish what I need to do.

 

Yup!