Raid Catastrophe

As I was preparing my hard drive for migration for the new incoming motherboard replacement, I need to break my existing Raid configuration on two of my hard drives. It was setup as JBOD ("Just bunch Of Disk"). JBOD is like spanning, what it does is it sum all you hard drive capacity into one big hard drive.

When I was done doing breaking, I boot my windows vista and was very shock that the two hard drives was not mounted correctly by window. Going to the Disk Management, both drives are showing that its need to be formatted before it can be use, so I immediately reboot my system and try to recreate the JBOD configuration. Unfortunately, after booting the second time, windows still won't show my original data on the hard drives and forcing me to reformat the hard drives before I can use them. Now, my data on hard drive is no where to be found and I can't find any utilities that can restore my previous configuration for the purpose of restoring my files. I tried the Active@ Partition Restoration and DiskInternals demos but still won't show my original data and besides they are too expensive. Anyhow, one leason learned here, don't use JBOD in the future!!! And good thing, and not sure if that really is a good thing, hehheeh, I never put personal data like pictures, documents, family videos on this hard drive, it was on my second Raid 1 Configuration (Mirror) , most of data inside it are software installer, downloads, movies (including porn, hahahaha!!!) and some other stuff which I can redownload again but definitely will take a lot of time to research.

Replacement Mobo

Today, I bought a replacement motherboard for my desktop server. I purchased it on Newegg which cost 69.99 + shipping and tax but with 10 dollars rebates. Hope it will be delivered by tomorrow.

Here's the model of the MOBO.
ECS A780GM-A AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard