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Q12321 · #1 Post by **Q12321** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:49 pm

Okay, my Windows install was/is fucked, so here's what I did:

I got an IDE hard drive (thanks 2005), hooked that monster up, and installed the x64 version of Windows XP Pro. I went to do this just to download the regular 32 bit version of windows and to get everything off of my other hard drives so I could reformat.

So, Windows installs fine, so I go to install my RAID drivers (my other two drives are set up in RAID 0, SATA). Windows sees my drives fine and all, but says they're inaccessable, they're using 0 bytes out of 0 bytes of total space, and says the file system is RAW. Windows didn't fucking format my drives, did it?!? Seriously, this isn't a joke, I had a FUCK load of important shit.

#2 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:06 pm

sorry no experience with RAID here :[ i specifically refused to RAID my two seagates because of these complications..

Q12321 · #3 Post by **Q12321** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:12 pm

This is seriously......bad.

What I'm going to do is wait until the Windows iso is done, burn it, and try to run recovery mode or whatever-the-hell-it's-called on my RAID setup. We'll see how that goes.

But yes, I'm not going RAID again. And if I do...I'll do RAID 1 but leave the second drive out of the computer most of the time. Maybe once a week I'll stick it back in, the OS will say the RAID is fucked up and it will fix itself, giving me a carbon-copy backup in no time.

2005 · #4 Post by **2005** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:13 pm

I would post on some other fourms, like Tomshardware, [H]ard | Fourm, or Anandtech to see whats up.

Between the three of them you should have no problems.

No experience with raid

Q12321 · #5 Post by **Q12321** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:45 pm

Well shit

RAID array was corrupted. I'm not spending the money or the time to try to repair it. I just deleted it instead.

I have backups from about 1-1.5 months ago, a little bit before my motherboard fucked itself. So I'm not too far behind. Sadly, all the recordings and stuff I've been working on are gone.

2005 · #6 Post by **2005** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:51 pm

Sucks arse man, shows you how shitty RAID is.

I would never use it unless you have another big like 300+ GB SATA all by itself for storage.

Q12321 · #7 Post by **Q12321** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:03 pm

Yeah, I'm not using it as of now. Just two 150GB drives.

Nice thing is that my dad wants to buy me an external hard drive so I can keep things backed up often. =)

Q12321 · #8 Post by **Q12321** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:03 pm

I think I might make a sig. banner with my specs in it too.

2005 · #9 Post by **2005** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:25 pm

1337ness,

So I guess send the 120 back on her way whenever you can, and fuck raid forever.

The local pawn shop had a 250GB WD mybook for 120$ which isnt bad. But I hate drives that require external power sources.

Q12321 · #10 Post by **Q12321** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:47 pm

Yeah I'll send that shitty out before the end of the week.

mannyace · #11 Post by **mannyace** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:57 pm

dude im in the same boat as u with the recordings and tons of wavs and shit

do the back up manually its better, and i have this prog it can read two folders (and subfolders) and tell u which files are missing or updated from which folder and u can jus tell it where to copy which files, do it 1 a week or whatev, easy as shit