one drive failed or...

[begovics]

I have 2X 160 GB Hitachi Sata HDs in Raid0 array(Promisse Fast Trak Controller on MB). It was used as video drive and worked very good for 2 years. Trying to add one more drive on Pata controller, I probably moved/touched/hit something and after that my array stopped working. If I enter raid configuration utility, it shows one drive as ok and other failed or not connected. The strange thing is that if I connect any of the two, it will recognize it and show as ok. So I guess, nothing is wrong with any of the drives physically. Is there any chance to recover files from this.

 

[smiley124]

If you just want to recover the files, and you have access to the drive, you can run file scavenger

http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm.

It costs about fifty dollars for a license. I have used it, and it works great. I recovered my external HD after formatting. Keep in mind that this solution is purely for recovering files, and not guaranteed to make your config work.

 

[begovics]

Thanks Smiley124, I already have data recovery software which also saved my external hard drive, but it wouldn't work before both drives are accepted in Promise raid configuration utility.

 

[jurgen36]

You could try to delete the drive array and then go to rebuild. I had a similar problem with 4 raid 0 drives, deleted the array and then went into delete and rebuild. Rebooted the machine and all was back to normal. I could do this as I had two complete backup systems, so nothing to loose. But as I said it was unnecessary to use my backup. Good luck

Jurgen

Jurgen

 

[begovics]

Thanks Jurgen,
Sounds very simple. I always have a backup normally, but this time I 'just wanted to do something' before backing it up. I guess, I will go with 4 new drives and 0+1 array in the future.
Thanks a lot again.