problem with sata drive

[moep]

Hey guys ..
i need some help ..its all gone with pete tong with my hdd ..
i have an sata (200gig) and an pATA (just a normal ide) ((200 gig too)) drive ..
the sata one was my old .. and it was running fine untill i bought the pATA drive
....
i created a lvl 0 raid with both drives (plugged both onto the raid controller)
activated raid in the bios.
at this point the pc didnt boot from the sata drive anymore.
even the drive hadnt been recognized at boot up ...
well.. then i changed the sata drive from one sata connection to the other one on
the raid controller (i have 2 of em)
that didnt work either.
then i tried just a raid with only the pATA drive... (i plugged the sATA drive on
the onboard sata controller again) ... that didnt work either.
((dont ask me y i did it .. -.- ))
changing the sata connection didnt wor either ..
...
the partition table looked like this:
C: 5 GB
D: 25 GB
E: 60 GB
F: 5 GB
G: 100 GB
(all NTFS)
((all just on the SATA drive .... the pATA drive doesnt contain any datas))
Well.. atm i just take care about the C partition ...
(its normally a windoze pc but i wanna try to repair my system with knoppix)
problem is ::::
That i lost the partitiontable somehow (dunno how) ... and i dont know any
solution to recover my datas ..
I already successfully recovered a few files with a suckin windoze recovering
tool... but i cannot recover all my data with it ..
i created under knoppix a partition (sda1) about 5120 megabytes with a
ntfs flag (?!)

root@1[knoppix]# lspci -v
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0282
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80a3
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] #08 [0060]
Capabilities: [58] #08 [8001]

0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 1282
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 2282
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3282
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4282
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 7282
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 South] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: fbd00000-fbffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e8000000-faffffff
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0000:00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 808a
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at fb800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
I/O ports at 9800 [size=128]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 811a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at fba00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Expansion ROM at fb900000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data

0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV Series
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at e7e00000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

0000:00:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV Series
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
Memory at e7f00000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V600 motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
I/O ports at c000 [size=8]
I/O ports at b800 [size=4]
I/O ports at b400 [size=8]
I/O ports at b000 [size=4]
I/O ports at a800 [size=16]
I/O ports at a400 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V600 motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
I/O ports at fc00 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V600 motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
I/O ports at c400 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V600 motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
I/O ports at c800 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V600 motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V600 motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V600 motherboard
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
Memory at fbc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South]
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V600 motherboard
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 812a
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 22
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: [80] #08 [2101]

0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
Flags: fast devsel

0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
Flags: fast devsel

0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
Flags: fast devsel

0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0002
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Memory at fbe00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fbd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro] (Secondary)
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0003
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at fbf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

Who can help me to get to my data? :/

[moep]

can I restore my boot table with gpart?

[Harry Kuhman]

It sounds like you took a formatted drive containing data and expected to make it part of a raid array without reformatting anything or reloading any data. And I would guess that you didn't make good backups either.

In a nutshell, as you seem to be learning, that will not work. I wouldn't have expected an sata and and a older parallel IDE drive to work together in a raid zero array either. Generally you have to use similar drives for a stripped array, and I had never heard of a raid system that would let you use an SATA and an older IDE. I'm not 100% certain that you can't get away with it, I just don't expect it will work.

As to the ability to recover, it depends on how much dammage was done to partition tables and the like. If you just hooked it up and quickly found that things were bad without running any partituon software, I would expect the partituion tables to have changed at all. But then they would be right when you disabled raid, and that doesn't seem to be the case or you wouldn't be asking. Or maybe the partitions are fine, and the data on the partirtions is now scrambled, which seems more likely. In that case gpart will not help you at all (it fixes partition tables, not all of the contents of the partitions). You might be able to recover some files with the Live Linux CD Helix, but you're going to have to do some work to get anything back.

[moep]

what should I do now with Helix CD?