SATA HD Help

Within the past 2 weeks my RAID 0 set up has failed and I'm wondering what else I could do to get it running. I got these drives back in December so they are fairly new. Both are 200 GB Seagate drives. Sometimes when I start the computer up when it gets to the detection phase of my drives it will see both of them and keep on going, but right after the DMI Pool detection it goes blank just like it is going to show the win xp pro boot screen then the monitor turns off and it restarts itself. Usually after restarting it wont see the second HDD and it says raid set incomplete...yadadadada. Im not really sure what I could do to fix this and Im really hoping that the only suggestion is to go on the warranty and get a new one. Even if I could get in only one time it would be great. I miss me data =*(.
Comp specs are as follows:
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro 2 (Revision 2)
AMD Athlon XP 2700+
1 GB Geil PC3200 Dual Channel Ram
(2) 200 GB Seagate SATA drives in Raid 0
Nvidia BFG 5700 Ultra
Antec Smart Blue 350 Watt PSU

If any other info is really needed I'll be glad to give anything to this contribution. Even if I can get in one more time I would be happy because I could go on a cd burning-fest =). Thanx.

 

What raid 0 setting did you use? Striped, spanned or mirrored?

Your data is gone if one of the drive is bad.
sorry, raid 0 has no fault-tolerance

 

"What raid 0 setting did you use? Striped, spanned or mirrored?

Your data is gone if one of the drive is bad.
sorry, raid 0 has no fault-tolerance"

First off, RAID 0 = Striping, RAID 1 = Mirroring, and RAID 5 = Spanning (I think).

Can you get an IDE hard drive, install Windows, and boot to it to see the RAID array?

 

Nope,
raid 0 = 2 disks (spanned striped or mirrored for performance or storage w/o fault tolerance)
raid 1 = 3 or more disk with fault tolerance (3rd disk for backup)
Raid 5 = 3 or more disks wit fault tolerance for performance or storage and 1 disk for backup

 

And about the raid array, if you have it onboard you must enable it in bios, if hooked on IDE controller you can check it out in disk manager

 

"Nope,
raid 0 = 2 disks (spanned striped or mirrored for performance or storage w/o fault tolerance)
raid 1 = 3 or more disk with fault tolerance (3rd disk for backup)
Raid 5 = 3 or more disks wit fault tolerance for performance or storage and 1 disk for backup"

Ok, I was curious about RAID 5, so I looked it up:
RAID 0 = Striping
RAID 1 = Mirroring
RAID 5 = Striping with Parity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks#Standard_RAID_levels

 

yeah i know all about raid i just dont wanna lose the data, but of course will format if need be and all the such. I actually have 3 spare IDE drives I can do that to. Guess that is tonight's project when I get home. Wyatt is right about the raid sets though. I just want to make sure i check every available way of trying to access the disk before i have to erase it all.