Chkdsk for RAID?

[cantbprince]

Anyone know a tool that can be used to scan a raid-0 hard disk?

i know that chkdsk should never be used. I'm trying to do a defrag with Diskeeper and it will not let me until the drive has been checked with CHKDSK (schedule for boot however i have disabled it).

thanks.

btw.. i have 2 500GB drives in raid0

 

[Sheninat0r]

Why can't you use CHKDSK? Does it kill your data, give errors, or what? I'm just curious because I've never heard that before...

 

[RebateMonger]

Yeah, you can run Chkdsk on a RAID array.

 

[John]

Honestly I've never heard of an issue w/ chkdsk and "healthy" raid volumes. However you should not run it if the drive is going to require data recovery.

http://forums.storagereview.ne...wtopic=22865&hl=chkdsk

 

[cantbprince]

I've read so many places that you should never run it on raid

ex:
http://www.quetek.com/RAID_mistakes.htm

 

[John]

Originally posted by: cantbprince
I've read so many places that you should never run it on raid

ex:
http://www.quetek.com/RAID_mistakes.htm

They specialize in data recovery, and as I mentioned in my previous post that is the only time (according to my research) you should not run chkdsk on a raid volume.

 

[cantbprince]

Thanks guys!!! it's running now!

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: cantbprince
I've read so many places that you should never run it on raid

ex:
http://www.quetek.com/RAID_mistakes.htm

They specialize in data recovery, and as I mentioned in my previous post that is the only time (according to my research) you should not run chkdsk on a raid volume.

yep, only when raid is gone as os sees separate drives.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: cantbprince
I've read so many places that you should never run it on raid
ex:
http://www.quetek.com/RAID_mistakes.htm

They are referring to running Chkdsk on a SINGLE drive that is part of a striped array. That would certainly mess it up.

 

[SilentTweak]

I've been having the same problem with my RAID-0. I can't seem to run chkdsk. I'm sure both my drives are super healthy since I only got them a few weeks ago. Even when I ran my other disk and took a look at the drive's SMART info in Windows (didn't format them in any way or partition here) they looked great.

Here's my hardware:
P5B-DX
2: WD 160GB 2.5" SATA HDD (RAID-0)
Intel Matrix Storage for RAID

I've tried running chkdsk in O&O Defrag Pro 10 but it doesn't work. It keeps on giving me an error near the beginning. Can anyone help me with this? Windows and everything boots okay. I'm backup everything tonight since I'm getting pretty worried.

Also another weird thing is that, almost once a day I can't empty my recycle bin. It gives me an error Dc16 Access Denied or something. If I log off and log back in to Windows it works fine again. Am I already starting to have problems with my drives?

EDIT: OP how did you get chkdsk to run for you eventually?