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Hey Pros and Bros

Last night at 2 o'clock in the morning - I was doing an important research- when I was working with and IDE my PC started to cripple until it stopped working. I restarted the machine but it just freezes on loading Windows. I am running 2 Raptors in RAID 0 on a Pentium D 930 overclocked to 4.0 Ghz with Asus P5WD prem. I reseted all the settings and currently no overclock is going on, the Intel chipset still recognizes the RAID conf but again it won't load Windows. Any ideas what to do - besides hair pulling and Christmas shopping-

I hope my work won't be gone..

Thanks
 
mrmez

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Try doing a repair install from the original Windows CD
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If that dont work i has a gun u can borrow :twisted:

If feel your pain. Raid 0 should have NOOO place near important research(porn).
Neither should OC tbh.

When my sis was doing her honors/doctorate this is wot i did...
1HDD, setup auto windows backup every day. EVERY DAY! U can do a lot in a day.
No incremental backup, 7 new files a week.
Weekly transfer from her hdds to one on my pc, then to xbox, just cos im super careful, then weekly transfer the latest single file to my web server just in case the house burns down :twisted:
Plus ~fortnightly backup 2 dvd.
Did that for 4 years. Now running my own business i do just about the same.

Yah its a long lecture and can be a pain in the arse, but if u really ARE doing important stuff, its worth every minute.

If u simply CANT afford to lose ne data there are data recovery apps out there, tho ive got NO idea how they work on RAID. Are the HDDs physically farked? Can try plug them in another sys see if u can pull the data. Or..... send if off for data recovery, but u will prob drop at leas $500.

Prevention is better.
 
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RAID 0 = double the chance of data loss due to HDD failure.

RAID 0 + no backups = you stupid f**k

Try www.spinrite.com or equivalent software for recovery. But the fact that its RAID0 makes recovery TWICE as difficult.

Software recovery by a professional (~$500).
Hardware recovery by a professional ($1000 and upwards).

Backup folks ... HDDs are cheap as shit ... if you dont backup you only have yourself to blame :evil:
 
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I'm curious... were you doing legitimate research? Even if it was just porn as other people have suggested, why the need for 4GHz and RAID 0? Well, maybe you learned your lesson.
 
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If you don't have a back up on that data, then sorry for it is lost. All you can do now is reinstall the OS again on the formatted disk preferably. Then make sure to have back up on important data, especially when using raid 0 array.

Raid 0 is not really raid to start with. It should be "aid 0" not "raid" redundant array of independent disks. Raid 0 is not redundant so it should be "aid 0".
 
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Hum. RAID0 + screaming OC + important work + first post = we get to chase off another nooB by telling how really, REALLY, ... misguided, yeah, misguided that was.
 
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Hum. RAID0 + screaming OC + important work + first post = we get to chase off another nooB by telling how really, REALLY, ... misguided, yeah, misguided that was.
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Hey stop right there mister mister! This is not your average young Joe you are talking to. This is a married man -with no children yet!- who happens to write server applications. I need to have a similar development environment at home. Don't pull that noob card on me or I whip your little punk ass. Maybe I was thinking of the old Forumz when I posted here. Anyway thanks for the input guys I will try to swap the RAM modules and reinstall windows or something.

Cheers!
 
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Hum. RAID0 + screaming OC + important work + first post = we get to chase off another nooB by telling how really, REALLY, ... misguided, yeah, misguided that was.
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Hey stop right there mister mister! This is not your average young Joe you are talking to. This is a married man -with no children yet!- who happens to write server applications. I need to have a similar development environment at home. Don't pull that noob card on me or I whip your little punk ass. Maybe I was thinking of the old Forumz when I posted here. Anyway thanks for the input guys I will try to swap the RAM modules and reinstall windows or something.

Cheers!

My n00b-O-meter just went off the charts 8O
 
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You know there was a time before you xBox-PS3 junkies discovered toms forums. There were some knowledgeable people here.

Anyway I got it, no need to reply to this people. Thanks!
 
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Hum. RAID0 + screaming OC + important work + first post = we get to chase off another nooB by telling how really, REALLY, ... misguided, yeah, misguided that was.
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Hey stop right there mister mister! This is not your average young Joe you are talking to. This is a married man -with no children yet!- who happens to write server applications. I need to have a similar development environment at home. Don't pull that noob card on me or I whip your little punk ass. Maybe I was thinking of the old Forumz when I posted here. Anyway thanks for the input guys I will try to swap the RAM modules and reinstall windows or something.

Cheers!

wow... I really hope your production environment isnt a RAID 0 on a severely overclocked server with no backup- as if it would make a diff at the application level, what kind of array you were running- unless its a storage application that configures RAID arrays. But then processor frequency wouldnt be a factor.

Dont know what being married has to do with your config (unless your wife built it)... but seriously, if you're doing "important research," you should AT LEAST be backing up to a USB hard drive. Which, of course would be cheaper than the bohemoth heatsink and umpteen hundred fans. Maybe she could install that for ya too! :p
 
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Hey stop right there mister mister! This is not your average young Joe you are talking to. This is a married man -with no children yet!- who happens to write server applications.
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since your raid problem is fixed i'll just offer to help you out with your no children problem. Tell your wife I hit the back of the skillet every time. *patingg! or you can have one of mine.
 
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since your raid problem is fixed i'll just offer to help you out with your no children problem. Tell your wife I hit the back of the skillet every time. *patingg! or you can have one of mine.
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8O 8O 8O
That's a little too much out of line here.
 
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Hey Pros and Bros

Last night at 2 o'clock in the morning - I was doing an important research- when I was working with and IDE my PC started to cripple until it stopped working. I restarted the machine but it just freezes on loading Windows. I am running 2 Raptors in RAID 0 on a Pentium D 930 overclocked to 4.0 Ghz with Asus P5WD prem. I reseted all the settings and currently no overclock is going on, the Intel chipset still recognizes the RAID conf but again it won't load Windows. Any ideas what to do - besides hair pulling and Christmas shopping-

I hope my work won't be gone..

Thanks
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Boot file damaged maybe.
 
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