Stripe Set - 1 IBM-HDD failed - urgent help needed!

[ikarus666]

hi there!

1 IBM 60 GB 7200 rpm u5 of my stripe set (2 hdd`s) died! i`ve used the ibm-tool - i don´t want to erase my data! for about 5 hours i am running a datarecoverytool from ontrack - it`s still working for 3 hours at the same file - i think it crashed! no ghostimage is possible because of the bad sectors! i can´t put it in another computer - file system wasn´t recognised (stripe set!)! Any ideas???

thanxs:|

 

[John]

Data is spanned across both HDD's in a raid0 stripe. This is why you need to do regular backups.

 

[Windogg]

To expand on John, there is no contingincy for fault tolerance on a RAID0 AKA striped array. A failure in any drive on a striped array leads to 100% data loss. Using the term "redundant" for RAID0 is a complete misnomer. Afraid to say you are SOL.

Windogg

 

[John]

I was trying to break the news to him very gently.

 

[Windogg]

John is always the humanitarian. I'm just the SOB that puts people on their own VLANs or cuts their patch cable just because I hate their necktie

 

[ikarus666]

thanxs for your pro-help - for explaining what a stripe set is, to backup.... it helped me a lot to solve my problem - smile! what is 100 % - maybe the death - nothing else! i`ve got most of my data back! Not the number of people make a great country - the ideas make a country great - best wishes from a small country - called AUSTRIA!

 

[apriest]

Hello there,

I feel your pain! I had a similar problem a couple weeks ago. A customer had two striped hard drives for a video production machine. They were nearing the end of a long project and hadn't dumped to DV tape yet. Wouldn't you know one of the drives crapped and they were going to lose a week's worth of video editing. (Always back up!!!) I tried Ghosting the drive and ran into trouble becuase of the bad sectors. After some research I discovered the following article on Symantec's website. With the -FRO switch I was able to Ghost the drive to another identical hard drive. I was then able to run Western Digital's diag tool and it cleared the bad sector labels on the good drive. Customer was back in business the next day (I ran the WD Diag tool overnight).

Hope that helps you too... Good luck!



(It's quite a long link... you can search for bad disk or bad sectors on their site and find the article if the below link doesn't work right)

http://service4.symantec.com/SUPPOR...s_solve.html&src=sg&pcode=ghost&svy=p76922295