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raid hdd problems
Hello,
I have a dell xps gen 4 with a raid 0 build in. 2 hdd of 160 gb each. one of them has an error, the other is fine. Windows wont start at all. in safe mode, it hangs at a certain driver. when I try to run chkdsk from original win xp pro cd, I get this error after 2%: this volume has unrecoverable errors. and chkdsk stops.
I ran the built in Dell utility and it found only one bad sector, everything else was fine. I attached pictures.
what can I do ? I really need to recover my data and then I will disable raid.
msgale
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Posted November 29th, 2014 08:00
"A RAID 0 (also known as a stripe set or striped volume) splits data evenly across two or more disks (striped), without parity information and with speed as the intended goal. RAID 0 was not one of the original RAID levels and provides no data redundancy." Therefore a failed disk in a RAID 0 configuration can be considered as a single failed disk, and you should act accordingly. There may be some data recovery software, I know of none. There are also data recovery services, I think Seagate has one, that may help. I have to assume you have no backups. I suggest that after you do what you have to do, that you buy two new disks of at least 500 GB each and convert from RAID 0 to RAID 1, which give you data redundancy.