320GB Hard Drives Dead? PLZ HELP! :(

[yhelothar]

Yes I just got my 80GB to finally boot!
Damn primary IDE bus is broken on my mobo! I swapped it to secondary and it finally booted
Now I got into windows, and I loaded the Sil3112r drivers
reboot
SAME BSOD I GET IF I BOOT FROM MY RAID!
Windows BSoD trying to mount the drive!
SO NOW WHAT??!!?:'(

 

[sharkeeper]

Do you remember the drive parameters when you created the RAID0 volume? Stripe size is most important. It can be dicey, but what you have to do is delete the stripe and create a new one. It will appear unallocated to windows, BUT if you use the same stripe size the data should be recoverable. If you use the wrong stripe size, EZR may see some stuff but most will be unrecoverable.

Cheers!

 

[yhelothar]

Yes I still remember what stripe size I used.
So you are sure I can still recover my data even after I formatted?

 

[sharkeeper]

You formatted?

Yes you can recover BUT if you write anything to the newly formatted partition whatever existed in those sectors is bye bye.

Do NOT format after creating new logical drive in your RAID BIOS. Boot up and open EZR.

With storage you can never be sure of anything!

Cheers!

 

[yhelothar]

Doesn't it automatically format when I unraid my drives?

 

[sharkeeper]

No it does not. These controllers don't even initialise the new logical drives like SCSI controllers.

In the past, (Promise FT66) I had something similar happen with a user and recreated the volume using the same stripe size and was able to boot from it without recovery! Rare, but it happens!

Cheers!

 

[yhelothar]

OK I've just tried what you said
Now windows boots, and it shows that the drive is unallocated
When I startup ontrack, and goto advanced recovery, it says scanning system, and it closes!!

 

[sharkeeper]

You try advanced mode?

What version of the s/w do you have?

Pro version works well for me.

Does the event viewer show an DR WATSON stuff for the exe that is closing?

Cheers!

 

[yhelothar]

I have version 6.03 of EZR Pro, yes I tried Advanced Recovery

yes event viewer shows dr watson stuff
The application, C:\WINDOWS\System32\SndStorm.exe, generated an application error The error occurred on 03/13/2004 @ 20:08:08.310 The exception generated was c0000005 at address 004152B7 (SndStorm)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

[sharkeeper]

Try R-Studio.

That GPF sounds like it's your soundcard drivers/application not EZR.

Cheers!

 

[yhelothar]

OK I just downloaded the R-Studio demo..
it found a lot of files on my drive, but a lot says Read disk SiI RAID 0 Set 01100 at position 1582XXXXXXXXXXXX failed after 10 attemps. Data error (cyclic redundancy check)

Guess I'm SOL for most my files

 

[yhelothar]

Thanks a lot for your help shuttleteam

 

[Atlantean]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0
forumla60:
Yes I have already tried the drives in my neighbor's ASUS P4P800 mobo, which it requires me to format the drives to put it in RAID

Atlantean: yes I was

Personally I prefer to be disconnected from the net... last time I defragged when I was connected something similar happened to me, didn't have raid0 running though... but my drive stopped functioning, no idea if the two are related but I disconnect my pc from the net now when I defrag and no problems.

 

[Atlantean]

Damn I thought I saw that coming.

 

[yhelothar]

hmmmm... Well I have ALWAYS defragged on the net and NEVER had problems before. So I'm not so positive that this is related to the net.

 

[sharkeeper]

Personally I prefer to be disconnected from the net... last time I defragged when I was connected something similar happened to me, didn't have raid0 running though... but my drive stopped functioning, no idea if the two are related but I disconnect my pc from the net now when I defrag and no problems.

I've never heard of this!

As a matter of fact, if you have Diskeeper Professional installed and are using the "set it and forget it" option, the Diskeeper Service will defrag whenever it likes so this really won't matter.

NEVER defrag a disk with unknown or questionable integrity! (the service will perform a quick analysis and stop if it detects inconsistencies) The net result could be a much harder to recover volume!

Cheers!