kramerd1506
Technical User
Hi guys, I sure could use your help.
I have twin 80gig hard drives installed in a machine that I built running in a performance (striped) RAID configuration. Yesterday, the POST test indicated that the RAID array was 'offline' and it would not boot.
What can I do to find out if the hard drive(s) are the problem (and which one) or could it be the motherboard?
If I enter the RAID setup utility, I can rebuild the array, but I don't know if I will lose all the data if I do that. Will I lose the data by rebuilding the array?
I don't really know where to start, so any help is appreciated. I must recover the data on that array, so I'm tempted to just take both drives into the shop and tell them one is good and one is bad - find the bad one and copy all the data on it to another one just like it. Would that work? They might have to send it to a reovery store. How much does it cost to send a drive to a recovery shop for data retrieval?
Thanks for the help!
I have twin 80gig hard drives installed in a machine that I built running in a performance (striped) RAID configuration. Yesterday, the POST test indicated that the RAID array was 'offline' and it would not boot.
What can I do to find out if the hard drive(s) are the problem (and which one) or could it be the motherboard?
If I enter the RAID setup utility, I can rebuild the array, but I don't know if I will lose all the data if I do that. Will I lose the data by rebuilding the array?
I don't really know where to start, so any help is appreciated. I must recover the data on that array, so I'm tempted to just take both drives into the shop and tell them one is good and one is bad - find the bad one and copy all the data on it to another one just like it. Would that work? They might have to send it to a reovery store. How much does it cost to send a drive to a recovery shop for data retrieval?
Thanks for the help!