Re: RAID hardrive crashed help!!

From: Idolator#556 (nospam8_at_rogers.com)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: 22 Sep 2004 12:54:34 -0700

Malke <malke@nospoonnotreally.com> wrote in message news:<#4GIZT4nEHA.2340@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
> Idolator#556 wrote:
>
> > My PC froze, so when I rebooted, There was a message about my RAID
> > setup and then it rebooted again. On the next reboot, my RAID screen
> > came up as normal saying I have a two 40GB hard drives; SI1 stripped
> > set 80GB. I saw the win XP logo come up and then the blue screen of
> > death came up for 1 second and it rebooted again before I got a chance
> > to read it. My Pc keeps rebooting. I tried Safe mode, I tried Safe
> > mode with command prompt, I even tried last known configuration to no
> > avail.
> >
> > I noticed that when booting with safe mode it stops while loading the
> > .sys files and says "press esc to stop loading bus347.sys" whether I
> > press ESC or not it doesnt make a difference.
> >
> > Also, I tried booting from the Win XP CD and chose recovery console.
> > but when I do DIR on drive C: it doesnt come up with anything.
> >
> > note I did have to Press f6 during winCD bootup and load my ATT133
> > ultra ATA driver from a floppy.
> >
>
> And now you've just discovered the problem with using RAID 0 on a home
> pc. With luck, just Windows is fscked and it isn't bad hardware. If you
> have two cd drives, one of which is a cd-rw, try booting with Knoppix.
> Knoppix is a Linux distro that runs from cd. If you can successfully
> boot Knoppix, you know this isn't a hardware issue. Knoppix will be
> able to see your Windows files and you can burn your data to cd-r using
> the k3b burning program. You can get the .iso for Knoppix at
> www.knoppix.net. Obviously, you'll need to do this on a different
> computer that has a burner and third-party burning software. XP's
> built-in burning capability doesn't include being able to make an .iso.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Malke

In that case Why dont I just install another HD and load windows xp
and some kind of disk recover program.. this is what I plan to do once
I get my friends old 12GB HD.

also there is some info I didnt include in my first post: when I type
DIR from windows recovery console, it just says directory enumeration
failed.. not sure if this is any help.

I guess I never should have used raid in stripped configuration as it
makes the HD twice as fast, but if one goes down you lose everything
:(

any other suggestions are welcome.. thanks

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