I've had a hilarious week of computer problems

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:51 am

Giving this one more shot. I've reattached the suspect RAID 0 drives, and I have the new drive attached on which there's an option to directly restore RAID 0 files. Remember when I overwrote my C drive boot sector? Now I have a clean drive. I'll try it this way. If it fails, it fails and I'm done.

Currently have 5 HDDs attached to my PC. That's a record for me.

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Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:17 pm

GORDON wrote:Currently have 5 HDDs attached to my PC. That's a record for me.

Noob.

I had 15 in my previous configuration. Currently back down to 10.

Hell, my laptop has 3.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:57 pm

Never had the need. 3 has been the max, with 2 in RAID config. I haven't run massive file farms either, though, merely big ones.

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 1:32 pm

I currently run 2 RAID 1 SSD boot drives + 8 drive RAID 5. 7 drives in the RAID with hot spare.

Admittedly... I have a lot of spare TB right now. Probably 10TB empty.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 1:39 pm

RAID recovery currently 84% done.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 2:06 pm

Welp....

Before the software started writing the data to the clean drive, it "locked" it and took the drive offline. I immediately saw it disappear from file manager.

It didn't bring it back online when it was done.

The only way I can view the contents is to mount it.

Once mounted it wont let me see anything because it says it isn't formatted, which it was before the recovery started.

So I guess this is a fail.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 10:20 pm

Since I have all the drives connected I was thikning of trying again with different software, but I think I am going to give up. Only the program I was using seems to be free, and I don't feel like paying $100+ to try different software. Haven't really lost much, and am tired of messing with it.

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:34 am

Wait ... give up? You mean let it beat you?

You can do that?

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:28 pm

For all I know, the data on the drives is actually corrupted. The two images I was able to pull suggested that, since I couldn't open, view, or mount the images the images.