I need help. COmputer will not boot up. RAID Problem. Please Help

[Guest_imported]

Hi. I have a very very very big problem right now. I've been running the Epox EP-8K7A+ for a while now. I've been running two IBM Deskstars 40gb in RAID mode 0. Well things have been fine for a long time except just today out of no where my computer restarted itself and while restarting the computer would not start up all the way. What happens now is that it goes out passed the fist bios screen and passed the Highpoint RAID BIOS screen and once it passes there it says "Error Loading Operating System". I've been trying to figure out what is wrong but I can't and I have lots of important files in my computer that I cannot lose. I checked the configs of RAID, but whats happened now is that it doesn't seem to show each drive as stripe one and two but HDD 1 and HDD 2. I usually says someting like Raid 0 - 1 and RAID 0 - 2. I think I just need to some how reactivate the RAID 0 without formatting. Can anyone help me out here? I need help bad. Really really bad.

 

[dumdum]

You're not going to like what I have to say.

Your only chance is to see if you can possibly read the array from a DOS prompt. But unfortunately it sounds like you SOL. Same thing happend to me once. You have to rebuild the array and that means no more data. I'm not sure but a professional data recovery company may be able to help you.

I guess the best thing I can say is to go to your backups. We are always looking for new members at our computer forums:

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Please come join our community too.

 

[craigey]

Unfortunately I have to agree with the above post. If you had used mirroring rather then striping you could have just rebuilt the image to the drive that reports an error in the raid setup. The only way to have a fast and secure Raid array is to have 4 Hard disks and use the mirroring & striping option. You would still only have 40Gb of data, but access to the files would be faster and would be mirrored across the other disks in case of any problems.

 

[GoLdFiNgeR]

craigey is correct, but thats awfully expensive, i hope backed up your data.