RAID 0 Failure

[dave87]

Afternoon all,

Long story short, had the electricity meter changed today and now my RAID0 WD drives have become unhappy (they've decided to stop working).


FYI, they worked for a brief period, but I noticed applications (its my apps drive) crashing, so I restarted the PC. On the restart the drive had disappeared from Windows Explorer. So, they are recognised in the BIOS, appear to windows as a RAID0 drive (Storage management sees them as one drive), yet cannot be initialized. What would be the best way to get them back up and running?

[smargh]

Restore from the backup, which everyone using RAID0 does relgiously, of course.

[GoNz0]

Restore from the backup, which everyone using RAID0 does relgiously, of course.

+1

[dave87]

Programs drive, so it just means reinstalling them. User Data stored separately.


Hoping there was a shortcut

[GoNz0]

not sure if you have the storage to backup everything but i use this simple script after my weekly windows backup to check for new data & delete old data from my 3 other drives to my nas box

robocopy G:\Documents\ \\N5200\Documents /FFT /ZB /MIR /COPY:DT /R:0
robocopy D: \\N5200\D /FFT /ZB /MIR /COPY:DT /R:0
robocopy E:\Films\ \\N5200\Films /FFT /ZB /MIR /COPY:DT /R:0

its saved as a bat.

[badass]

Programs drive, so it just means reinstalling them. User Data stored separately.


Hoping there was a shortcut

There is. Regular backups of the programs drive