Raid Problem Maxtorblast 3

[soheix]

Hi, Ive had my highpoint raid for a while. Only a day ago the raid suddenly broke. I got the message that one of the array broke. So i read in some forums that I can delete and recreate the exact raid and it should work. After done that It recoqnize that I have a raid. Now I can't access the drive, Maxtorblast 3 wants me to format it. What should I do? I want to retain my old data. Or am I doing something wrong to get the drive to work again? Please help me out I don't want to lose 250gig worth of stuff. Thanks

[user0209]

In my experience with raid, at least at company, you fix a raid with a raid utility. Basically when a physical drive crash, you insert in a new one and use the utility. You do not destroy the logical drive or anything like that.

Your raid controller should have an option to allow you to fix a redundancy raid. When you first turn on your pc, you should see option F3 (or whatever) to access your raid option. That's how it is with mine.

[mobo57]

What kind of RAID 0 or 1 or????
Assuming you have 2 drives, if in a 0 array, you are done. Can't recover. If 1 then you can rebuild the RAID and data using the utility.
Oh yea, welcome to sysopt!

[Midknyte]

why did you delete the array? once you delete an array, it's pretty much gone. Some RAID bioses have a repair option, but I'm guessing you tried it or your card didn't have one. I know there are specialists than can try to retrieve data from your array, but it's expensive.

It has to be RAID0, since the system would boot fine with a single drive from a RAID1 array.

RAID0 is always prone to data loss, so you should have a backup. Most guys I know that even run RAID0 have a third hdd for backup.

We have gone over this subject a few times on this forum, so sadly your case is not surprising.
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