RAID gone bad?? cannot defrag

[MangoX]

I'm on a AT7 using the onboard Highpoint raid controller.

I have 2 maxtor 80gigers on them on a Stripe 0 array. Had it for about 6 months now.
Now when I try to defrag the array, the app would always freeze at 10% around, freezing my whole computer also. I go to sleep when I do this. I have winamp playing songs (sleep music).
When I wake up, I find that I an still move my mouse, winamp is still playing songs, but I cannot do anything in windows. Nothing responds. Can't open programs, nor close winamp, etc.

I've tried other defrag programs but the same thing happens. Anyone know whats up with it? I hope the array didn't go bad, or have bad clusters.....

 

[John]

Run CHKDSK first, then defrag in safe mode.

 

[CaptnKirk]

Raid is not normalaly de-fragable , the data is alternately written between the pair of drives,
and a de-fragmenting would upset the distribution of the data location and sequencing.

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
Raid is not normalaly de-fragable , the data is alternately written between the pair of drives,
and a de-fragmenting would upset the distribution of the data location and sequencing.

Umm... no. Fragmentation occurs at the filesystem level, RAID operates below that. As far as your OS and filesystem is concerned, there is no difference in this context between a RAID array and a single disk.

 

[Jojo1971]

same thing happened to me TWICE with my 2 WD 100 GB in RAID-0. i got an abit IT7 MAX2 with hightpoint controller...the raid setup just stopped working one day... thinking one of the HDD might be defective, i tried reformatting both of them (individually) and found out that they werent actually defective...so it's the highpoint's fault then... since i really needed a RAID setup for video editing, i bought a Silicon Image PR-133 Raid Card from Newegg.com....for the last 2 months, my raid setup has been flawless.....also another thing it's better to use a PCI raid card than to use one that's built -in into the mobo---it's easy to transfer yout RAID setup from one pc to another...just make sure you have the driver handy in a floppy disk..