Bitcoin wallet on crashed Raid 0 drives

[anonymous5050]

A friend mined some bitcoins a couple years ago using slush pool and sent them to a satoshi client wallet on his computer.  The miner caused his computer to bluescreen and refuse to recognize a bootable hard drive.  It was a dual SSD raid0 array.  The computer was never fixed, but now the coins are valuable enough to bother with recovering them.  How should I go about doing this?  Hopefully the SSD's are still good.  I am reasonably technical, just never dealt with raid.

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[cp1]

Hardware raid?  Does the card still work?  If not you're probably SOL.  If it was mdraid or similar then you should be able to reassemble it easily.  BTW raid0 is the worst.

[anonymous5050]

It's hardware raid.  Not sure how to see if the card works.

[cp1]

Just plug it in.

[anonymous5050]

Sorry, he told me it was hardware raid but he doesn't know what he's talking about.  I assume it is software raid since the drive SATA cables are plugged straight into the motherboard.  Also, this will be more complicated than I thought because he doesn't want the drives to leave his sight since there is some personal stuff on it.  What do I do next?  Thanks for the help.  I'll tip you some bitcoin.

[cp1]

It's probably one of those terrible raid implementations they build into motherboards.  Is it windows?  You'll have to get the computer booting unless you have another of the same type of motherboard to plug the drives into.  You'll have to boot to windows recovery using the raid driver disk and then search for the wallet.dat and extract it.

[anonymous5050]

He doesn't have the CD for the recovery.  Could just make a copy of the drives and scrape them for bitcoin keys?  I vaugely recall seeing a tool for that.

[cp1]

The problem is that since it's raid 0 you have to reassemble it into an array.  A regular windows CD can boot into recovery mode, you just need the raid drivers from the motherboard manufacturer webpage.  It's possible you could boot into a Knoppix Live CD which might be able to assemble the array.

[anonymous5050]

Isn't the stripe size fairly large compared to the size of a private key?