I think my 2 Hard drives failed, but it's weird how it happened, let me explain;
A couple of days ago my computer was acting strange; whatever task/s XP was running would sometimes freeze for a couple of seconds, then resume like normal. Being the dolt I am (without even thinking "just MAYBE I should backup some stuff first), I rebooted the system and now it hangs at a blank screen after POST.
I ran a virus-scan with a Mcafee boot disk, and it says there are no files on either drive. Although I think it said there were master boot records on each...
I did use those drives quite a bit, so perhaps their motors went, although it is strange that they'd both go at the same time. I've backup the most important data on them, but I'd rather not lose the rest.
Is there some way I can figure out (safely) what the problem with the drives are? Or should I just check and see how much data recovery will cost me?
On a side note, I'll probably be setting up a raid array in the future, :roll:
what's the best raid level for data security with 2-4 drives?
A couple of days ago my computer was acting strange; whatever task/s XP was running would sometimes freeze for a couple of seconds, then resume like normal. Being the dolt I am (without even thinking "just MAYBE I should backup some stuff first), I rebooted the system and now it hangs at a blank screen after POST.
I ran a virus-scan with a Mcafee boot disk, and it says there are no files on either drive. Although I think it said there were master boot records on each...
I did use those drives quite a bit, so perhaps their motors went, although it is strange that they'd both go at the same time. I've backup the most important data on them, but I'd rather not lose the rest.
Is there some way I can figure out (safely) what the problem with the drives are? Or should I just check and see how much data recovery will cost me?
On a side note, I'll probably be setting up a raid array in the future, :roll:
what's the best raid level for data security with 2-4 drives?