I would have thought one of the Admins would have moved this thread already. You are in a tutorial section and not a normal help forum.
I am not the RAID expert, but maybe I can see something.
Do you have both sets of RAID drives connected to the same controller?
If you have an Intel board, you must have the Intel Rapid Response Technology installed for the RAID drivers. Do you have that utility you could open to check the management of the drives? If not, there should be a RAID OpRom during boot that would show the configuration of any RAID arrays.
You are working in Windows 8 and not Windows 7?
A RAID 1 is a mirrored volume. I would think, as long as you treated the surviving drive as a RAID configured drive, you could recover data on it.