Hello,
It is turning out to be a bad evening: I was happily ripping my cd's and dvd's (almost finished) when my computer just froze.
Upon the reboot the non-raid dives refused to spin up, so I openend up the case pressed the powercables and retried - with succes (it has been very hot, and I've seen this happen on my system). But now I saw a raid bios message saying that there was a drive failure (raid was in a critical state. Apparently, I knocked out its SATA cable. So I plugged it back in, and started rebuiling the raid. About 18 percent in the process the raid went offline!
Dunno why, but now it lost another disk in the raid. I did notice that the sata cables are quite loose on the controller side :-(. Rebooting now, and it sees a raid 5 with one disk missing and a free drive. And I can't seem to tell it that this one disk is part of the raid. And as I can't do that, I fear I may have lost all data stored on it.
The controller is a Promise sx4300, all drives appear healthy.
I see no alternative but to delete the logical drive and recreate it, but I assume this will delete all data...?
Any other things I could try to regain my data?
Thanks!
Jorg
It is turning out to be a bad evening: I was happily ripping my cd's and dvd's (almost finished) when my computer just froze.
Upon the reboot the non-raid dives refused to spin up, so I openend up the case pressed the powercables and retried - with succes (it has been very hot, and I've seen this happen on my system). But now I saw a raid bios message saying that there was a drive failure (raid was in a critical state. Apparently, I knocked out its SATA cable. So I plugged it back in, and started rebuiling the raid. About 18 percent in the process the raid went offline!
Dunno why, but now it lost another disk in the raid. I did notice that the sata cables are quite loose on the controller side :-(. Rebooting now, and it sees a raid 5 with one disk missing and a free drive. And I can't seem to tell it that this one disk is part of the raid. And as I can't do that, I fear I may have lost all data stored on it.
The controller is a Promise sx4300, all drives appear healthy.
I see no alternative but to delete the logical drive and recreate it, but I assume this will delete all data...?
Any other things I could try to regain my data?
Thanks!
Jorg
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