I've had a hilarious week of computer problems

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 9:09 pm

Leisher wrote:Worst case scenario, you can send it to Ontrack.

Also, your wife posts LOTS of pictures, so she'll have copies of all those on FB.

Yes, we have determined that between facebook and walgreen's picture upload site, she has 75% of the pictures I don't have local backups of. She inst' nearly as distraught as she was earlier today.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:36 pm

This entire day and process has been just ridiculous.

Currently 14% done creating the .vhd file from the drives. I wonder if there will be a single thing in it readable.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 1:27 am

Just curious. Why were you running RAID 0?

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 1:53 am

Because shut up, that's why

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:36 am

Disk image... imaged. 282 GB. Problem is, I don't think I have a spare drive in the house big enough to expand this into.

May have to wait to after vacation. I don't think I want to pay the premium at best buy for a new HD.

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Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:34 am

I still have two spare 1 tb drives u can have

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 12:34 pm

Sure. My mailing address is in my contact info. If they are here when I get back from Florida I will use them.

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:37 pm

GORDON wrote:Sure. My mailing address is in my contact info. If they are here when I get back from Florida I will use them.

Just let me know how much for shipping and I will paypal you.

Trooper · Post by **Trooper** » Wed Sep 17, 2014 10:07 pm

A server, containing vital information. . . . . And no data redundancy? I understand the performance aspect, you don't want your transfers to take 2 days. . . . If you can't afford to run 4+ hard drives to ensure the speed of stripping + the security of data redundancy, maybe go with the later of the two? May take a little longer to make those transfers, but at least you have the guarantee that when one fails, you have another containing the same data. . . . Raid 0, in my opinion is a bad option for a server. . . . Point being, when you get this server back up and running again, attempt a more secure raid before hand?

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Post by **GORDON** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:13 am

Thank you for the disaster recovery advice.

I have already said I had triple backups and the first two layers failed, and I mistakenly had important data on a raid 0 drive.

And at this point I don't think the drives failed, the mobo did.

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Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:59 am

I will try to ship them out tomorrow or Monday. I've been slammed at work with all day meetings and stuff.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:23 pm

You've got time. Won't be home until the 28th.

But god help you if they aren't there waiting for me. God help you.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:58 pm

Hey. Come on. I already called him stupid for using RAID 0. He didn't need two people doing it!

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:08 pm

Yeah. It was a bonehead move putting the photos on the raid 0 drive. I admit it. I forgot which drive was which at some point.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 6:30 pm

OK, all 4 drives work, and are clear. Will ship them this week.

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 7:42 pm

Word. Data recovery software already installed and ready to go.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:41 pm

The mistress is in the gazebo.

Repeat.

The mistress is in the gazebo.

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:46 pm

The gigalo is in the watchtower.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:22 am

So before vacation I ran a recovery program on the RAID 0 disks and it created a 300GB VHD file. The size is what it should be. I didn't yet have a hard drive on which to extract it so I put it on hold.

Now I have a hard drive.

I am looking at a couple VHD extraction tutorials on youtube, and they both say go into disk management, Actions --> Attach a VHD file, then it shows a virtual hard drive getting created, and it is automatically assigned a drive letter.

When I do it it is not automatically assigned a drive letter, and I can't do anything with it. Also, in the tutorials the virtual drive letter gets a blue bar at the top the same as the existing drives, and the one I get is black.

So.

What am I doing wrong.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:37 am

I think it may be a gibberish VHD file. I opened with ext2read, which is supposed to be good at viewing files in raw disk images, and I am getting nothing.