Hi, I've just suffered a major drive failure, the drive is an IBM Deskstar 60Gb, and I believe it matches the symptoms of the fault commonly known as the Deskstar 'click of death'.
I didn't panic, because I have an ABIT TH711-RAID motherboard, and on boot up it came up with the message that the raid array had been lost, due to failure. It explained that I should replace the disk, then follow the procedure for recovery.
Well I've done that, and unfortunately it doesn't seem to work!!
I have tested the drives and accept that disk one is dead, the second disk (there is only two) is OK, but can't be read without setting a flag, it's viewed as a disk with a red box and a cross in it, (I think). I'm assuming this is because it is part of a raid set, and have done nothing more as I do not want to write to it and cause any more issues than I have.
I re-installed disk two, exactly same position and added new drive, unfortunately this is an 80Gb drive, as I was unable to source the 60Gb, seems no longer manufactured. The 80Gb drive is formatted and ready to go. On the ABIT instructions it says:
Enter setup config, <ctrl H>, Delete Array (It says no array to delete!!), Rebuild array, select source disk (and here it comes up with not enough drives to select, or similar, so I can't select disk 2 as the source, Select Target drive, (it does allow me to select disk 1 as target drive). You are then meant to duplicate, but obviously I can't because I seem to be unable to select the source drive.
Any thoughts.
I've semi accepted the loss, going to put 4 new disks into the PC and then look towards some sort of data recovery provider.
I didn't panic, because I have an ABIT TH711-RAID motherboard, and on boot up it came up with the message that the raid array had been lost, due to failure. It explained that I should replace the disk, then follow the procedure for recovery.
Well I've done that, and unfortunately it doesn't seem to work!!
I have tested the drives and accept that disk one is dead, the second disk (there is only two) is OK, but can't be read without setting a flag, it's viewed as a disk with a red box and a cross in it, (I think). I'm assuming this is because it is part of a raid set, and have done nothing more as I do not want to write to it and cause any more issues than I have.
I re-installed disk two, exactly same position and added new drive, unfortunately this is an 80Gb drive, as I was unable to source the 60Gb, seems no longer manufactured. The 80Gb drive is formatted and ready to go. On the ABIT instructions it says:
Enter setup config, <ctrl H>, Delete Array (It says no array to delete!!), Rebuild array, select source disk (and here it comes up with not enough drives to select, or similar, so I can't select disk 2 as the source, Select Target drive, (it does allow me to select disk 1 as target drive). You are then meant to duplicate, but obviously I can't because I seem to be unable to select the source drive.
Any thoughts.
I've semi accepted the loss, going to put 4 new disks into the PC and then look towards some sort of data recovery provider.
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