RE: Utterly Gutted

["UKHA" <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you tried running any recovery software?

I had a drive (not raided tho) fail a couple of months ago, wouldn't boot
or
anything - I was well peeved as the drive was only five months old - with a
3 year warranty...

However, 2 hours in the deep freeze and a copy of 'NTFS Get Data Back'
recovered all the crucial stuff - saved much screaming.

My commiserations too (esp. the digital photos which are priceless),
Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Purves [mailto:CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 August 2004 21:00
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Utterly Gutted


Hi All,

Just thought I would share this tale of woe with you so some of you don't
make the mistakes I did......

I had build a raid 5 system around the promise sx6000 hardware raid card
with 6 x superstore caddies (not cheap by any stretch of the imagination)
thinking this would keep my data safe. One of the drives failed yesterday -
I didn't panic - put in a replacement - the array rebuilt itself and all
the
lights went green. Rebooted XP and nothing..... the array appeared as
un-partitioned space. All the data is gone including all our photos
(including those of my newborn daughter) / videos all our docu ments. The
500 albums I ripped and god knows what else.

I just wanted everyone who has raid setup and thinks they are in any way
safe to get out there by the DVD-r's and get backing up - Raid as far as I
can see is worthless. The one time I needed it it failed.


Chris (Gutted)

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