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Just an update. I was able to use ZAR http://www.z-a-recovery.com to see files and recover "some" of them. It looked promising for a while but in the end I don't think I ended up getting many usable files. I had hoped that with a stripe size of 128k that any file found which was under 128k would be ...

Not as much luck with Recovermyfiles. It kept throwing invalid file handle errors and didn't seem to find as much as ZAR did.

Is there a way in testdisk to tell it how to create the partitions when it finds the wrong partitions or is that an indication of things being too screwed up to be usable?

OK, I'll give that a try. ZAR did find a bunch of files but at first glance it looks like it cannot retrieve those files, only the names which of course is just teasing me to continue to dig deeper in hopes of getting something.

OK, well ZAR seems to provide at least a little hope. It does seem to find some directories and files but it's a big mess and I'm not sure what to do next. I'm certainly willing to pay for the software but I wonder if the results from the demo version can be useful for using testdisk?

Thanks for pointing me to those other tools. I'll check into them. I've been fortunate enough over the years to not be in this position and I don't want to experiment on my array and really loose what's there. I'm still not sure if anything is left but I would hope since I had 5 drives int he array ...

Can I offer a reward to anyone who can help me? I can make a PayPal donation in return for your help. I'm not sure if I will be able to retrieve any files from this RAID but I want to try and rule out all options before I give up and delete the array.

I was looking at this more today and here's what is displayed for my array:

Partition table type default to Intel
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 - 320 GB / 298 GiB
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 - 320 GB / 298 GiB - CHS 38917 255 63
Current partition structure:

Partition ...

Yes, the array is working. I only had the 1 drive drop out so no drives were moved around. I did re-create the array just exactly how it was before. I am booting the same system with another drive that has WinXP x64 running and it sees the array as unallocated.

I thought I had attached my testdisk ...

I had a RAID0 with 5 SSDs and 1 of the SSD dropped out. The system would not recognize the drive and after exchanging emails with SuperTalent I updated the firmware of the drive using their MP Tool. I have added the drive back into the array but of course the array is not accessible by Windows. My ...