 | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by GrandpaNoob72 |  | | | | | | | | | Before I get to the actual question(s), a little backstory / background...
Before I left for deployment, I had both my own and my wife's desktops running in tip-top shape (at least that I could tell)
About three months ago, she tells me that mine has been offline (as in, it doesn't power up at all, sits there and squeals a DRAM error post code beep (I looked it up)) since a month or so after I left, and hers is acting squirrelly as well... Hers only boots up and stays running for about an hour, then shuts down and won't boot back up for a good couple hours afterwards.
So when I get back, we look into a laptop for her, and I go to town trying to figure out WTF is going on with the desktops...
In the meantime, I have this neat little HDD enclosure +500GB HDD I bought... I am going to pull the HDD from her desktop, slap (figuratively) it in the enclosure, and transfer all her pictures, documents, etc from her old desktop HDD into her laptop. No worries, it's IDE, so is the enclosure, no problem...
Now MY desktop on the other hand, I have my OS and data partitioned cross a RAID 0 setup on a pair of Raptors. HOW THE HECK DO I GET ALL THAT DATA BACK?
To my knowledge, the Raptors are not corrupted (possible, but I can't get it to boot, remember?). IF I can get the machine to boot, backing up my data to the 500GB external storage drive is academic, even I can figure that one out.
If I CAN'T get it to boot, what am I looking at for opening/saving the data from the RAID stup?
Anyone? | |  | |  | |
RAID 0 is hard to recover anything. Some situations with similar or exactly the same drivers, you can rebuild the array (by chance) and pretty much use them as they were.
RAID 0 isn't for the nessesary docs, use it for your games and
OS, but keep important stuff on the side (IDE or sata drive).
Depending on the actual importance of the data, I wopuld start by troubleshooting the
PC first, seeing what isn't working, swapping some memory, and unplugging the HDD's CDrom's and other factors, to narrow it down. If its the board, theres a good chance you won't be recoving the data for anything easy and cheap like.
I wish you luck (the same thing happens everytime i leave the area for any amount of time, everybody's
PC i help fix goes nuts)