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June 13th, 2011 21:00
Respawn trouble
I have an AREA 51 X58, running windows vista ultimate with 6GB RAM in a RAID 0 configuration.
Today it failed to boot, it just goes to a flashing cursor no error codes. I can not get it to boot in safe mode at all. I booted from my alienRespawn v2.0 disk ( I do not get the F-10 option on the boot up as before). the menu doe not give me any advanced option just return my system to factory conditions. it tells me that the user partition is corrupt or missing. anyway that I can recover my system without losing all my files?
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Tesla1856
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June 13th, 2011 22:00
That's the problem with RAID-0 . If one drive crashes, you lose everything on both. The Recovery partition was also split between the 2 drives.
How did you get Area-51 X-58 machine with Vista? Is that a legacy machine?
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June 14th, 2011 19:00
I bought it in 2009 just as Dell was taking over, I have the Win 7 upgrade disk I just never got around to upgrading. Has anyone ever used one of the comercial raid recovery programs? I have some files that I really need to recover if at all possible. I am about to deploy overseas, this thing could not of picked a worse time to crash. I guess I will leave my Inspiron laptop home for the wife and kids. I always tell myself that I will back up my files, as they say hindsight is 20/20.
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June 14th, 2011 21:00
Ok, so you have a legacy machine. That is fine, but since Area-51 X58 (as you call it) could be confused with the current model Area-51 (X-58 Intel Chipset) you should make it clear.
I think those have an Asus motherboards. Not sure what kind of RAID controller it uses. Not that it matters much ... you fix it like any other computer. You might make sure all the cables inside are attached good, all the drives are powering up, etc. If you manage to get it working, even once, immediately go in a backup that data. If you turn it off, it will likely never start again.
No, I don't have any experience with commercial RAID recovery programs. Hopefully, someone else here does. It's hard enough recovering data from normal wired bad drives, much less a RAID set.
After you finish with recovery ...
Figure out which drive is still good and clean install Windows. Or, keep those drives as is (if you still have hopes of recovery), and install a new drive. Hopefully, somebody has any special drivers you need (for that legacy hardware). You likely have something like our current MIO-Board and Command Center app suite, so that will likely be an obstacle (so find that driver suite).