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Old 12-22-2003, 02:13 AM   #1
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Default Hard Drive Recover Help much needed... ATA RAID 0 knowledge needed HELP PLEASE!!!

Hey guys I hae a BIG problem.

After taking my computer home from school I went to boot it up and it would freeze right when windows was almost finished starting up and the last startup program would load.

I tried this a few more times and it kept freezing at different points. So this went alright untill it wouldnt even boot up into windows at all it would freeze on the windows 2000 starting up screen.

So I decided to pop in the recovery console and see what I could do. I tried chkdsk but it said that it couldnt do it. So I did a fixboot and fixmbr... apparently this must have been where I REALLY screwed up.

Checkdsk still didnt work and now when I start up it says there is a disk read error and wont even boot. It is not seeing the partition table of my hard drive at all.

The thing is, I am running 2 60 gb IBM desktar 7200 rpm ATA hard drives on an Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A card in a RAID 0(striping) formation.

I for some reason think that the partition table from the RAID card had some sort of problem with it. So now I am trying to run a data recovery program called testdisk and it says the boot sector and backup boot sector match and it only finds 1 partiiton in the search and says its a NTFS partition and I can't change the type because there is no types that would work for me.

So did I just lose ALL of my data because I think my partition tables are wiped from that? there was A LOT on there that I really need, really bad. I need some help here, I have never been in this big of a bind.

I don't know how to get the data back because they were in the RAID 0 formation and each hard drive has 1/2 the damn data.

Please help... I really need it.. im doing a through check for more partitions again (120 gb takes along time) and hopefully I find it but this is bad.

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Old 12-22-2003, 02:24 AM   #2
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There is your problem. IBM Deathstar. Worst drives ever.
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Old 12-22-2003, 02:41 AM   #3
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Yeah well I can get new drives AFTER I get my data back but I really need my data...

nothing is even seeing the partitions anymore...the raid bios is seeing them as RAID_0 but I cant get anything to read from them in dos or anything... im sooo screwed...
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Old 12-22-2003, 03:04 AM   #4
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Well im running the drive fitness test on the 2 drives now to see what it comes up with...

Anyone with RAId knowledge would be great to tell me what I did with my partitions or whatever...

Thanks

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Old 12-22-2003, 03:08 AM   #5
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Well, never do raid 0 without a mirror... little late now though.

Don't do the fitness test, you might make things worse. Go into the card setup and see if it still sees the two drives as a unit, if so, boot up under a dos floppy and see if you can DIR the C drive.
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Old 12-22-2003, 04:52 AM   #6
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Sounds like ya might have knocked something loose "After taking my computer home from school I went to boot it up and it would freeze"....
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Old 12-22-2003, 04:56 AM   #7
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Well, never do raid 0 without a mirror... little late now though.

Don't do the fitness test, you might make things worse. Go into the card setup and see if it still sees the two drives as a unit, if so, boot up under a dos floppy and see if you can DIR the C drive.
Raid 0 without a mirror. What a waste of HD's and space.
Secondly, he is running NTFS.. you cant boot up to dos and check the directories of C:. You can with a FAT partion.
Call adaptec if you havent already. Check to see if there are any known issues with that board. Sometimes they have easy ways of revcoveryin data depending on the setup. Mine havent had any issues. Check to make sure nothing came lose when you moved it including reseating the adpatec card. But start with adaptec, its free tech support unless they recently changed it. Also, try IBM. if the hard drive was the problem, they too will be able to help. and if all that fails, PM me. I have some pretty cool data recovery software around here somewhere. (Used for clients that dont believe in tape backup until a disaster occurs... haha)
My suggestion to you once you get this figured out. Run a Raid 5 setup. If a hard drive goes out, you run the recovery and you are set to go. If you dont want to lose the sum of one drive for raid 5, get anal about backups and dont worry about it. look into a dvd or CD burner depending on the size of your data. I have a 12/24Gig tape setup at home running with a raid 5 w/hot spare. Good luck

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Old 12-22-2003, 04:56 AM   #8
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ATA raid is weaksauce

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Old 12-22-2003, 05:06 AM   #9
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ATA raid is weaksauce
haha. learn which setups to use and you will find it to be the best thing since scsi. Look at mid and high end servers these days and you will find a good number of ATA raid setups. A 120Gig ATA raid setup is around 750 dollars cheaper then scsi. I have been running many clients with ATA raid for the past year with no issues. Most servers running between 25 - 200 clients.

weaksause....

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Old 12-22-2003, 05:09 AM   #10
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haha. learn which setups to use and you will find it to be the best thing since scsi. Look at mid and high end servers these days and you will find a good number of ATA raid setups. A 120Gig ATA raid setup is around 750 dollars cheaper then scsi. I have been running many clients with ATA raid for the past year with no issues. Most servers running between 25 - 200 clients.

weaksause....

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best thing *since* SCSI.
I have always, and still do feel that SCSI drives are built a little bit better than IDE drives. In fact, the only SCSI drives I've ever had trouble with were the western digitals that are no longer made, and I feel they were failing due to the customer stuffing two mirrored drives side by side in a desktop case with inadequate cooling.

As far as ATA raid, still weaksauce. Gotta go with SCSI on this one.

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Old 12-22-2003, 05:15 AM   #11
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ata raid is the bets. if yoiu nkow what you are doing.
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Old 12-22-2003, 05:50 AM   #12
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best thing *since* SCSI.
I have always, and still do feel that SCSI drives are built a little bit better than IDE drives. In fact, the only SCSI drives I've ever had trouble with were the western digitals that are no longer made, and I feel they were failing due to the customer stuffing two mirrored drives side by side in a desktop case with inadequate cooling.

As far as ATA raid, still weaksauce. Gotta go with SCSI on this one.
What dude, at 2am in the morning, *sinse* is how its spelled.. haha.. A year ago i would have agreed with you. SCSI RAID was the only way to go. But, IDE's reliablity has improved so much, there is no real reason to go with SCSI unless money is not an issue. Especially when the extra money can be spent on other needed items. Like, payin me my hourly rate.. haha,, no j/k'ing. Im not sayin all IDE raid is good, just that some perticular IDE raid setups are really reliable if done right. Most people with bad opinions of ATA raid have not done the proper research and testing or have gone with a poor hardware setup. Im talking abotu high-end IDE RAID setups, not some computer motherboard integrated crap. Anyways, for what its worth, my home system is SCSI RAID, but ONLY because the price was right... as in free. Adaptec 3600 raid controller with 4 U160 36gig drives. A year and a half ago.. you can imagine what this cost.

Either way, since Bryan already has the Adaptec board, he should plan on a ATA RAID 5 setup or some sort of Tape backup, if his information is that important. Bryan, give IBM and Adaptec a call in the morning and see what you can do.
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Old 12-22-2003, 05:51 AM   #13
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haha, is this english.. time to go to bed my friend... hahah
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Old 12-22-2003, 08:06 AM   #14
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Secondly, he is running NTFS.. you cant boot up to dos and check the directories of C:. You can with a FAT partion.

try sysinternals.com

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../NTFSDOS.shtml

they have a bunch of different stuff that may help you. most likely ntfsdos professional.
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Old 12-22-2003, 08:07 AM   #15
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Im gonna give adaptec a call.

The information isnt exactly critical. It is just mainly everything I have from school. Its many ISO's, its all sorts of programs I lost the disks for. Al of my mp3's and movies and all that which come up to over 70 gb of stuff.

I went with this RAID 0 setup because it was cheap and easy. Im gonna call adaptec in a little.
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Old 12-22-2003, 08:09 AM   #16
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SATA raid owns j00!

I am running a SATA 240GB RAID 0 and i absolutly love it...with no mirror, ohs n03s my RAID hasnt the redundency!

backups, they make it possible.


btw you might want to try some of hte data recovery progs to recover your mbr, but since you have overwritten it things might be a little tougher
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Old 12-22-2003, 08:55 AM   #17
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There is a program that I use that is AWESOME called File Recovery Pro. Go here:

http://www.lc-tech.com/

They have (had?) a free download where you could try it and see if it recognizes your data and then save it. If it worked, you buy it for $100. Best $100 I have ever spent. If they don't have the free version, just buy it. It's that good.

Second - as I am sure you know now - never just stripe drives unless you really need performance. Always mirror them. If one smokes itself it is no big deal.

Good luck!
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i dotn see why you guys are so hard core about not just running raid 0 by itself. if you have valuable data you should be backing it up to some other non failable media. no questions asked. thats why i dont mirror, i make regular backups

plus its not that big of a deal to me if i lose a couple movies and lose some saved games on a game.

mainly because a) it takes me no time to get what i lost back
and b) it takes me no time to get back to whatever point in the game i was at,
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Old 12-22-2003, 09:23 AM   #19
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i dotn see why you guys are so hard core about not just running raid 0 by itself. if you have valuable data you should be backing it up to some other non failable media. no questions asked. thats why i dont mirror, i make regular backups

plus its not that big of a deal to me if i lose a couple movies and lose some saved games on a game.

mainly because a) it takes me no time to get what i lost back
and b) it takes me no time to get back to whatever point in the game i was at,

You raid 0 knowing the risks, this gentleman didn't. aid (not a spelling mistake) is just fine for data you don't care about, and have other backups, but with out them, you just double your likely hood of loosing data, at the expense of speed, not worth it to me.
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oh, I didn't read the entire post, I missed the ntfs part
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My suggestion to you once you get this figured out. Run a Raid 5 setup. If a hard drive goes out, you run the recovery and you are set to go. If you dont want to lose the sum of one drive for raid 5, get anal about backups and dont worry about it. look into a dvd or CD burner depending on the size of your data. I have a 12/24Gig tape setup at home running with a raid 5 w/hot spare. Good luck

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Riiight. RAID 5 at home. Might as well go with an external fiber channel array too while you're at it!

RAID 1 should be fine for home use.

As for what to do now, sorry I can't help you there.

"Most people don't use backups until they've lost valuable data."
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Old 12-22-2003, 11:22 AM   #22
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Ok, ill give an update on where I am.

I ran the IBM Drive Fitness Check and it checked through both drives and didn't come up with any errors which seems to tell me there isnt a physical problem. At Least as far as I know.

I ran aprogram called TESTDISK which looks through your disk for ntfs partitions and it could only find 1 partition in the entire disk, I could give you guys the data it tells me for it if you want about cylenders if that would help.

I am thinking of pulling the 2 drives and the ATA raid card and putting them all in this computer and booting up to windows and seeing if I can use some of the windows based recovery tools and if those work just get another 60 gb drive for the computer and move all my needed files over to this one.

Here is what my computer does on startup...

POST...fine
Runs Adapted ATA RAID bios, sees both drives and recognizes them as RAID 0...
Runs the little part where all the IRQ's are shown...
Says "Disk read error press ctrl+alt+del to restart"

I am trying a program called NTFS reader for dos to see if sees the files. This really sucks by the way and ive used all the free floppys I have to do it haha.

I pray something works here.
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Riiight. RAID 5 at home. Might as well go with an external fiber channel array too while you're at it!

RAID 1 should be fine for home use.

As for what to do now, sorry I can't help you there.

"Most people don't use backups until they've lost valuable data."
...ditto.
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Im getting to the point where I might just delete and recreate my raid array and see what happens.
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I had that hard drive...and had the same problem. It just "forgets" what the hell a partition is so it loses all your data. I just said f it, and bought a western digital hard drive...I'm never buying another IBM hard drive in my life.

I would NOT run RAID on that. There is a speed increase running RAID, but it isn't enough imho to run with such fragile drives.
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