Re: RAID drives crashed?


"Andy Smith" <andy.smithballs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a couple of 250Gb Seagate drives in a raid0 configuration - striped,
so providing 500Gb total (Windows XP Pro) on an MSI Platinum motherboard -
they have been operating fine for about a year - last night, they stopped
working - the PC froze and when re-booted, the system reports
"windows/system32/config/system is missing or damaged - you could try
booting from the XP Pro cd and type R to recover"

As soon as you press R, it tells you that it can't find any drives

the drives are seen by the BIOS and I can enter the Raid configuration
programme and see the drives listed and configured correctly (but I
obviously don't want to make any changes!)

Both drives have power - heads appear to work (nothing too loud about
them!), I have tested the SATA mainboard system by using another single
SATA drive (seems ok)

Am I missing something simple, like I should reload the SATA drivers
before recovery? - I don't want to lose the data that I have created in
the last week or so (last backup was before Xmas!)
Cheers - and thanks in advance
Andy Smith


I had this problem a few times and traced it finally to dodgy SATA
connectors.
I hate those things, and now won't go near using RAID with the 'orrible
things.

Maybe SATA 2 is better, but I don't fancy the error in trial and error to
find out!

Lol


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