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broken striped raid!!!!!!!! please helpppppppppp

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Aikon3390

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Hi
i striped 2 40gb hd's togeahter a month ago about . . .and a few days ago one of them failed on me

so i bought a new harddrive, still hoping that the failed harddrive would come back to life...and to my surprise, it did
the only problem is, that while it was acting up (i was a bit frustrated with it) i entered the raid bios and hit destroy raid stripe (knowing that was a pointless thing to do....), so now i dont know what to do
is there any way i can just fix that destroyed stripe? both harddrives have all the info on them and all, it just needs to make the connection
any way to repair a broken striped raid?

i have tons of saved stuff on it, really dont want to lose all of it!!!! please help !! is there a program or anything out there i could get? hmm...

David
 
If you had it setup as RAID 0 then this is the risk you take... If you were running RAID 1 or 5 you would be sitting pretty though 😀
 
well, i have backups of the really important stuff . .but there still is about 40gb of data that i didnt have backed up that i would really want
i got some programs such as R-STUDIO 2.0 demo that should do it ....i can detect some files and run it through , but the program is shareware so i cant recover files larger than 64kb :/

so it is possible to recover something
 
can you say 'uh-oh' .. 😛

i've had same problem w/ IBM 75gxp.. *shudders*..

well spent the night restoring.. (had back up 🙂

good luck
 
btw, what's the exact command you executed in the bios (what you describe as "destroy raid stripe")? a google search on that phrase might be useful.
 
Have you tried calling support? I'd assume the RAID chipset manufacturer would know what to do. Not sure if they're going to support you if the chipset is part of a motherboard, but trying can't hurt.
 
When I had my raid striped over 3 harddrives before one went bye-bye, I did something in WinXP to change the partition to a dynamic disk or something like that. Well after I did that any time I would reboot, It would say that my array was off-line. I'd have to go into the fast trak utility and delete the array, then make a new one, and then it would boot up through the operating system. I didn't lose any data doing this, but it was kind of a pain in the ass to do.

KK
 
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