Ok... I'm at the end of my rope with this. Here's what happened.
I shutdown my computer with a 2 drive RAID 0 array (both 30gb) to install my new wireless keyboard. Upon powerup, it said I had a bad stripe on one of the drives. Shutting down again, I checked all the cables (unplugged and replugged) and power connectors and jumpers. I powered it back on and it didn't give me the error but it gave me a disk read error when it tried to boot. Checking the BIOS settings, it appears that it suddenly decided my drives weren't a RAID array anymore and were individual drives...
So to rebuild the array I have to destroy all the data on the drives (according to the bios) and that just can't happen (important data that hadn't been backed up yet and I need to get off)
So to my question... is there a way to tell the bios that these are once again striped drives (since they were in the first place and haven't changed) without having to erase everything on them? Or something else I can do to at least recover as much off them as possible before being forced to rebuild the array?
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I thought I'd put in some of the specs for the system: Athlon 1.4ghz, ABit KG7R mobo, 512mb PC 2100 DDR, 2 30gb Western Digital drives (WD300BB I think) and the usual assortment of other stuff
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I shutdown my computer with a 2 drive RAID 0 array (both 30gb) to install my new wireless keyboard. Upon powerup, it said I had a bad stripe on one of the drives. Shutting down again, I checked all the cables (unplugged and replugged) and power connectors and jumpers. I powered it back on and it didn't give me the error but it gave me a disk read error when it tried to boot. Checking the BIOS settings, it appears that it suddenly decided my drives weren't a RAID array anymore and were individual drives...
So to rebuild the array I have to destroy all the data on the drives (according to the bios) and that just can't happen (important data that hadn't been backed up yet and I need to get off)
So to my question... is there a way to tell the bios that these are once again striped drives (since they were in the first place and haven't changed) without having to erase everything on them? Or something else I can do to at least recover as much off them as possible before being forced to rebuild the array?
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I thought I'd put in some of the specs for the system: Athlon 1.4ghz, ABit KG7R mobo, 512mb PC 2100 DDR, 2 30gb Western Digital drives (WD300BB I think) and the usual assortment of other stuff
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