- May 13, 2008
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The computer: NP7282:
Intel i7 990x extreme x6 processor
Nvidia Quadro graphics card
24GB of RAM
2x224gb OCZ Vertex3 SSD in Raid-0 [the problem today]
1x2TB Seagate HD
Blu-ray reader and DVD-burner
Windows 7 x64 stock loaded with perfect drivers.
Fingerpad and fingerprint scanner
front loading webcam
recently purchased from a man on Ebay, about 2 months ago. It's a Sager Midern Laptop based off of the Clevo design. It's a desktop replacement.
It had upgraded 2 hard disks: 2x vertex3 224GB SSD, which I had put into a RAID-0 for increased speed and performance - and reinstalled the OS. It had just now gotten to a great point -- I was considering doing a full-drive backup and protecting my OS and setup, but I had not yet done so.
Last night, I had an accident when I removed the power cord from the laptop computer, taking it to another location. As soon as the power cord was removed, there was a BSOD, and the computer restarted. As soon as I turned it back on, I found the RAID offline and both drives listed as "Offline Member."
I booted this up into Hiren's BootCD -> Parted Magic Linux, and I discovered that both drives, when in AHCI mode: were fine and had no damage according to the SMART sensors on the drive. When the drives are booted in AHCI mode instead of raid, they are both powered on and listed, but cannot boot because of their RAID structure.
When they are booted as RAID in the BIOS, they do not power on [so far as I can tell] and do not function.
I removed the back of the laptop to manually inspect each drive, and there did not appear to be any damage to them: and the laptop booted into BIOS and Ctrl-I Intel Rapid Storage RAID SETUP with only 1 drive.
http://imgur.com/8Nt3yVC
My attempts to fix this in Intel Rapid Storage Technology Raid Setup:
1) Recovery volumes, as listed by the manual. This was a negative: both options 1 and 2 returned the same result, and I did not know what it was that it meant: if maybe I had incorrectly installed the RAID, or if I had not setup a recovery partition yet.
Option 1: http://imgur.com/o1BDNTm
Option 2: http://imgur.com/iaHAd4K
I need assistance immediately! Preferably today or tomorrow - so I can get back to my business and work.
Every time I look at this raid setup and the RAID recovery software: I'm afraid that I'll lose my entire drive and all my DATA. It is imperative that this not happen. Maybe you can recommend free RAID recovery software [boot version] for me, or you can give me perfect instructions on how to overcome this.
This is not the same problem as my previous post [Bumped a 3TB HD during transfer, now it's borked. Help!] : although very similar.
Intel i7 990x extreme x6 processor
Nvidia Quadro graphics card
24GB of RAM
2x224gb OCZ Vertex3 SSD in Raid-0 [the problem today]
1x2TB Seagate HD
Blu-ray reader and DVD-burner
Windows 7 x64 stock loaded with perfect drivers.
Fingerpad and fingerprint scanner
front loading webcam
recently purchased from a man on Ebay, about 2 months ago. It's a Sager Midern Laptop based off of the Clevo design. It's a desktop replacement.
It had upgraded 2 hard disks: 2x vertex3 224GB SSD, which I had put into a RAID-0 for increased speed and performance - and reinstalled the OS. It had just now gotten to a great point -- I was considering doing a full-drive backup and protecting my OS and setup, but I had not yet done so.
Last night, I had an accident when I removed the power cord from the laptop computer, taking it to another location. As soon as the power cord was removed, there was a BSOD, and the computer restarted. As soon as I turned it back on, I found the RAID offline and both drives listed as "Offline Member."
I booted this up into Hiren's BootCD -> Parted Magic Linux, and I discovered that both drives, when in AHCI mode: were fine and had no damage according to the SMART sensors on the drive. When the drives are booted in AHCI mode instead of raid, they are both powered on and listed, but cannot boot because of their RAID structure.
When they are booted as RAID in the BIOS, they do not power on [so far as I can tell] and do not function.
I removed the back of the laptop to manually inspect each drive, and there did not appear to be any damage to them: and the laptop booted into BIOS and Ctrl-I Intel Rapid Storage RAID SETUP with only 1 drive.
http://imgur.com/8Nt3yVC
My attempts to fix this in Intel Rapid Storage Technology Raid Setup:
1) Recovery volumes, as listed by the manual. This was a negative: both options 1 and 2 returned the same result, and I did not know what it was that it meant: if maybe I had incorrectly installed the RAID, or if I had not setup a recovery partition yet.
Option 1: http://imgur.com/o1BDNTm
Option 2: http://imgur.com/iaHAd4K
I need assistance immediately! Preferably today or tomorrow - so I can get back to my business and work.
Every time I look at this raid setup and the RAID recovery software: I'm afraid that I'll lose my entire drive and all my DATA. It is imperative that this not happen. Maybe you can recommend free RAID recovery software [boot version] for me, or you can give me perfect instructions on how to overcome this.
This is not the same problem as my previous post [Bumped a 3TB HD during transfer, now it's borked. Help!] : although very similar.
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