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So in the end, I was able to copy all the data from the created partition images back to my PC with no data lost whatsoever. I didn't need to recover all of it, but I just had to see how well would it perform and how much data would I be able to recover (turned out - all of it).

To create the image I clicked on "More Functions" (created a new screenshot without RAID loaded, so in my screenshot the option is greyed out, but for you it shouldn't be)

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After I had the RAID image created, I'd use the "Data Recovery for Windows and Linux" and ...

Okay, happy to update that this story has a happy ending! Even tho it doesn't involve testdisk, I wanted to update this with info in case anyone else ever needs to do RAID0 recovery (contrary to other Google results, I'm pleased to say that it is possible ).

Through trial and error, as well as with ...

Some neutral (no progress) and some positive development. So, as I mentioned before, I was able to identify partition details such as starting block, end block, superblock and other partition/RAID characteristics via various different tools/utilities but my showstopper was that Windows had converted ...

Well I've only managed to stress myself over this and do little to no progress... I've scanned the disk with various utilities to try to find and attempt recovering the deleted RAID partition but without success. What I keep running up against is that either no recovery tool detects the deleted/lost ...

That's a great suggestion - I'll look into this. I tried looking for the superblock on the trashed disk but I'm worried all traces might have gotten wiped out by windows. What I'm worried about is that, even with the disks being identical (same size, manufacturer, model, firmware) the RAID partition ...

Testdisk does seem to find "something"

TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
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Disk /dev/sdd - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63

Partition Start End Size in sectors
> P Unknown 0 0 1 121601 80 63 1953525168 ...

While dual-booting Windows and Linux and trying to add an additional disk for the Windows environment with an identical capacity as one of the member disks in the array I made a terrible mistake and allowed Windows to "Initialize" the disk. Now my RAID0 mdraid array is broken - one of the disks ...