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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 9:09 pm
by GORDON
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.
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:36 pm
by GORDON
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.
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 1:27 am
by Cakedaddy
Just curious. Why were you running RAID 0?
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 1:53 am
by GORDON
Because shut up, that's why
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:36 am
by GORDON
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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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:34 am
by TheCatt
I still have two spare 1 tb drives u can have
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 12:34 pm
by GORDON
Sure. My mailing address is in my contact info. If they are here when I get back from Florida I will use them. 
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:37 pm
by GORDON
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 10:07 pm
by Trooper
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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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:13 am
by GORDON
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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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:59 am
by TheCatt
I will try to ship them out tomorrow or Monday. I've been slammed at work with all day meetings and stuff.
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:23 pm
by GORDON
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.
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:58 pm
by Cakedaddy
Hey. Come on. I already called him stupid for using RAID 0. He didn't need two people doing it!
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:08 pm
by GORDON
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.
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 6:30 pm
by TheCatt
OK, all 4 drives work, and are clear. Will ship them this week.
Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 7:42 pm
by GORDON
Word. Data recovery software already installed and ready to go.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:41 pm
by TheCatt
The mistress is in the gazebo.
Repeat.
The mistress is in the gazebo.
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:46 pm
by GORDON
The gigalo is in the watchtower.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:22 am
by GORDON
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.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:37 am
by GORDON
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.