First time user, need help - strange results?

[ewhite]

Hi,

I just purchased the full single user version, but I am not seeing what I expect to. First, the setup:

Computer with (two) striped (RAID0) 2-disk arrays. System board crashed, when new board was re-installed the primary volume became unrecognized by windows (BIOS still indicated it was valid, however). Windows saw these disks as two seperate volumes, one marked primary, one marked "unpartioned space".

The second array was completely unaffected, and is fine.

So in board BIOS I deleted the primary array and recreated it exactly as it was previously. I then installed Vista on the 2nd array, and downloaded and ran ZAR. I have done nothing else to the primary array, in windows, bios, or anywhere else.

Now when I run ZAR I have a couple of uninteresting (but valid) directories which show up properly and recoverable, but mostly I have a very long list of "LostFiles###", and a long list of entries under "LostDirs". Virtually all of the files shown under "LostFiles" are indicated in red, and a small test recovery run failed to recover these. SOME of these "LostFiles" trees show valid (green) files however.

What is my best course of action here? Do I need to hunt through the many "LostFiles" trees to try to find files I am interested in? Shouldn't the tree view show the actual original directory tree?

Thanks in advance.