Re: RAID hardrive crashed help!!

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:04:11 -0700

Idolator#556 wrote:

>
> 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

Actually, there is a very interesting article in this month's "Maximum
PC" magazine (based on findings by Dr. Tom of the invaluable Tom's
Hardware) that using RAID 0 for home systems for gaming *isn't
noticeably faster! This of course goes against what techies have
thought, but apparently real benchmarking proves this.

Anyway, sure - go ahead and install another hdd and try installing XP on
it if that's what you want. Since I'm a Linuxhead, I do tend to try
Linux solutions first, particularly because often when Windows won't
see files or my XP testbed box won't boot with a client's damaged hdd,
Knoppix will do the job. Whichever method works for you is the way to
go.

Good luck,

Malke 

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