[Kal-EL]

Trial and Error until I realized that the install c.d. was reading all the damn files like it was x-mas. And it had loaded all the right click option like cut, copy, paste, rename etc. SO I figured wth, give it a try

[punx223]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

Trial and Error until I realized that the install c.d. was reading all the damn files like it was x-mas. And it had loaded all the right click option like cut, copy, paste, rename etc. SO I figured wth, give it a try

sticky this... and backup this post lol

[Buckeye]

Nice you were able to get some of your stuff back.

When mine went down the last time and I didn't know what was going on it started a checkdisk that was like you said, reading files like it was christmas, it went on for a very long time and in the end the Raid was dead.

The files that were saved on another disk were mostly there in the recovered super invisable file loctaion that only MS knows now to get there. I can't remember what it was called but I can find it of anyone needs.

I was able to copy the MyDocuments folder like you said and get that stuff back, most of it came back fine but I did lose some things.

I tried in vain to find a recovery boot DVD that I could boot and then be able to see this super invisable file loaction and get the rest of the junk off but after awhile I gave up.


As far as I know when Raid 0 setup go down you lose everything, period, you were lucky to be able to get stuff off. Raid 5 is def the way to go and run Accronis and remember to keep a Accross recovery disk up to date

[FACE]

+1, you got SUPER lucky, buddy. It may have something to do with a 6 disk raid config.... Your RAID 0 overkill may have saved that ass!

Truth be told, all of your files were corrupt, but since they were all broken up into 6 parts, you were able to recover most of them by Vista's nature. Basically the files with the more important blocks in tact were brought back to life in the same way defragging can put files back together. You can thank drive indexing and other little background features for that.

Looks like I'm going to fill my ports completely from now on for raid 0...... 10 disk array FTW!