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HELP: My RAID array is messed up

KingA21

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Let me start off by saying that I have an Epox 8k7a+ and 2 60gxp IBM drives. I have Windows 2000 with sp2 installed.

Yesterday, I was trying to fix a friend's hard drive. I connected his hard drive to one of the raid ide ports then started the computer. When I got into Windows 2k, everything was real slow, but I didn't take notice because it happened before when I hooked up his hard drive to my pc 2 weeks ago. When I was trying to access Windows Explorer and My Computer, the program would freeze up. My whole computer was slowing down and slowly freezing. So I restarted the computer. I did alt-control-delete then hit the shut down button. I told it to reset, but the computer hung so I had to do a hard reset. When I booted up again, it said that one of the RAID 0 stripe array drives was missing..... From what I remember, I think it said that. It asked me if I wanted to: esc, exclude (I think, I did this very late last night), and something else. I hit escape or exclude, I can't remember. I took out his hard drive and now my computer won't boot. I went into the RAID setup (control H), and made one of the drives bootable and the other drive hdd-1. But anything I do doesn't help.

Please help me if you have any info on this problem or if you know of any software that I can use in DOS so that I can resynchronize these two drives. None of the data has been destroyed on either drive. I haven't tried to create a new RAID array because the manual says that it would destroy the data.
 
Raid-0 stripes the data between the two drives. If anything happens to the data on one drive, you lose all the data on both drives.

You're basically screwed. NEVER mess with a RAID-0 array by removing one of the drives, or connecting another drive to one of the RAID ports.
 
I didn't think there would be a problem by hooking up the other hard drive to my RAID array because that's what I did two weeks ago and there wasn't any problems. This is my last post till after school.
 
next time, just attach the hard drive to one of the regular ide (maybe you will have to remove a cd or two, via the ribbon, of course) plugs for reading.

don't know how you got by the first time, but you really fubared your raid, time to prolly start over.

baldy
 
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