Restore Damaged RAID on new mac

Hi everybody,


on my old Mac (G5, OS 10.4), I used apple's software RAID to store some important data. One of the two harddrives of the RAID 1 system was an external (Firewire) drive. The other was an internal drive that died yesterday along with my old Mac (sort of "explosion", power supply?).


In order to restore my data, I've connected my external drive to my new iMac (MacOS 10.6), below please find what diskutil tells me. Can I restore this RADI system without buying a new separate harddrive? My new mac is connected to a TimeCapsule, so I don't need a RAID system anymore, I just need access to my old data...


What do I have to do?


thanks in advance

Matthias


P.S. actually I didn't connect my original external Firewire drive to my new mac, I had to remove it from its enclosure (which seems to be also broken) and connected it via an USB adapter (LogiLink).


AppleRAID sets (1 found)

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Name: Ohne Titel

Unique ID: 1DDDF1CA-E4F4-41BF-8550-E012AE7F4927

Type: Mirror

Status: Offline

Size: 0 B (0 Bytes)

Rebuild: manual

Device Node: -

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# Device Node UUID Status

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0 -none- 893E218B-67C2-4310-99CC-70126D5580E9 Missing/Damaged

- disk3s4 E2B9A308-6F25-45CD-A487-B2707560F318 Spare

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Posted on Oct 25, 2011 4:03 AM

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Oct 25, 2011 11:15 AM in response to msreimol

What about software to recover the data?


The drive works so apparently the files can be read directly via 1's and 0's, you'll need another external drive to output the results to of course.



Here are some tools which will help you recover your data, ...


Oct 26, 2011 7:22 AM in response to ds store

thanks, ds_store, Data Rescue 3 finally recovered all of my data :-) I even didn't need a separate external drive (Data Rescue did need an external drive to store some files, but it didn't clear the drive and I could store all my recoverd files on the local file system).


What wonders me is that I needed 3rd party software for this at all. I mean, it is the purpose of a RAID 1 system to survive the failure of one drive...

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