Quote Originally Posted by cybergeo3
Also, I don't know if the fact that these disks are raid0 makes a difference.
It makes a complete difference. You raid system is very very likely (ok, certainly) software based and the raid disks were built using special Windows drivers. Your manufacturer only gave you Windows drivers, and those drivers are needed to make any sense out of the disks (Level 0 is striping, where the RAID system lays down one track or cylinder of data on one drive and then switched to the other drive before moving the heads to the next track). There is basically no way that Linux would read these drives unless it had compatible drivers that knew about the exact drive geometry in use.

There are some Linux RAID systems (I don't believe that they are included in Knoppix), but that is not to say that the Linux software drivers lay out their data exactly the same as proprietary Windows systems do, and unless there is a perfect match you would do more harm than good trying to recover data on a system different than the one where the disks were first built.

And, it should go without saying, Level 0 gives you absolutely no redundancy (unlike Raid 1, Raid 5 or Raid 10). In fact, it increases your chance of data loss, since anything that goes wrong with the hardware or data layout of either drive can cost you the data stored on both. Good backups are imperative when using Raid 0 (and other Raid systems as well, other RAID systems protect you against only a single hard drive failure, not multiple failures that can be caused by a fan failure (overheating) and it doesn't protect your data from malware, Windows itself or user errors.