I've a PC which I use as a multimedia toy. There's 3 drives in it, 2 IDE (C with windows, D 300gb) and the problem drive E which is 1TB, currently showing 1/2 full with most of the files ok, however there's one folder called movies which HAD hundreds of files in it, now there are only 3, all AVI's, the rest has just disappeared.
WTF ? Quite upset as this is a lot of downloading there. Last thing we did with it was watch some episodes of the Wire and shut it down. Next day >>100gb GONE. It's NTFS , I've tried looking everywhere for the files and a couple of restore programs which seem to see nothing. In the past when I've screwed up drives by my own ineptitude I've used these programs quite succsessfully but not now. Any ideas at all would be great.
hmmm, might just have made matters worse.
took the drive out of one machine and moved it to the other which has 4 sata drives, 2 in stripe and 2 in mirror. the stripe is the boot drive so plugged it on the mirror port. This machine then started to try and rebuild the mirror array. Stopped that and tried using Backtrack 4 to see what was going on but it can't see the drive as it has a conflict with one of the mirror drives, but shows that it's partitioned for the mirror but has 2 FAT's , I guess one is the 'correct' one and one is from the attempted rebuild.
Backtrack recommended mounting it by using chkdsk/K and rebooting twice or if I have a soft RAID (huh?) then I need to do something else that I can't remember in Backtrack.
I always seem to get in these corners with HDD's
Next I'll remove the mirror drives completely and try again, hope i've not just wiped the lot.
posibilty you have now screwed your partion tables :/ this is a major problem with having raid set up, if u ever get the chance the i would reformat your raid drives and put them in IDE mode and run them seperatly that way if somthing happens to 1 of the drives the other will be fine.
posibilty you have now screwed your partion tables :/ this is a major problem with having raid set up, if u ever get the chance the i would reformat your raid drives and put them in IDE mode and run them seperatly that way if somthing happens to 1 of the drives the other will be fine.
Cheers Dude, that's pretty much what I'm doing at the moment. I set it up in the hope that mirroring would be a good idea, but it's just cr*p really in a home PC, especially as the drives are the same age and prolly gonna fail together. Back-up regime implementation time. yawn
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