In brief, my story first:

A week ago I knew nothing about Raid.... Unfortunately, now I know a little bit more

What happened was that I got a warning in WinXp SP2 saying that something was about to happen. I was instructed to update my backup immediately, wich I did(photos and my database managing these). I went to bed and the next day my computer did'nt start and now I'm seeking for a way to rescuee my "nice to have" documents and files.

I put in a new 500gb sata disk, but I do not know if Knoppix (5.1) is able to write to it, wich I intend to do. I used gparted to format it(fat32), but I'm not sure if I did this correctly. However, Knoppix reckognize this disk as /dev/sdc

Before I try to use dd_rescue, wich I have read a lot about(still not sure if understand all this), I would like to know if there is a way for me to determine if knoppix is able to read my Raid 0 array(2x250gb sata ntfs). The s.m.a.r.t report from dell, hidden under the F12 button somewhere, revealed that about 30 blocks was unreadable. Everything before and after was read successfully.

So, is there a way for me to determine if Knoppix is able to read the Raid 0 array? If it can, I guess I can use dd_rescue to write to my new 500gb disk.

Any help is really appreciated!


Btw, would it make sense to disconnect the two 250gb disks, put my new 500gb drive on top of the boot list in Bios, install WinXp again and then use Windows software to do the recovery?