A Problem![Hard Drives]

[marse.robert]

Hi all,
I fuuly realise that this Forum is for a specific use, I am, however, in a mess. If anyone has a solution please PM me.

I have, or did have, three WD Raptors of which, two were configured in a Raid array. I do not know what happend, but the "stripe" became somewhat unstriped. One of the disks is fine. The other is only showing a small proportion of its original size. I have tried all I know to restore the missing part to no avail.
I ran Spinright and the part that is missing cannot be reached. I think that the MBR of that part of the drive is corrupted. If there are any hard drive experts around?

Marserobert

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
What happened to the third drive? What kind of raid are you using?
Mrk

[marse.robert]

Hi MRK

The 3rd drive is fine. The raid was a "striped" configuration. One of the two Raptors was formatted and is fine. The second disk in the array is recognised as one of the partitions of that drive of approximately 40 Gb. I have formatted that Part. The other part of the drive keeps showing "Partition Table error."
The raid confuration was completed bt Windows.

Marserobert

[pandlouk]

Hi marse.robert,

If I am not mistaken I think that you can delete the raid array and recreate it again; without deleting any data. The stripe set is kept seperately from the data.

Just delete the array and recreate it in your raid bios and you should be fine.;)

ATTENTION: you must rebuild the array with the exact same settings you had before.

Panagiotis

[marse.robert]

Hi pandlouk,

Followed your advice: smack on the button!

Thanks a million.


Marserobert

[pandlouk]

{QUOTE-> Hi pandlouk,

Followed your advice: smack on the button!

Thanks a million.


Marserobert <-QUOTE}
you are welcome. :)