Raidxpert raid 0 has failed

[flamery]

HI guys,

I have a win7 machine with a AMD RAIDXpert raid 0 array (2x 2tb drives) all has been working well for 3 or so years, now last night 3 minutes after logging into windows, I got a message saying "raidxpert drive set down" the entire logical drive went missing.

I immediately suspected one of the drives had failed, however I booted into safe mode, and I could see the entire array with all files intact, also I can log into winds normal mode, see all my files intact for about 3 minutes until the crash happens again. So I suspect the driver has failed rather than a drive.

What should I do, go and purchase a single 4tb drive and clone the files whilst in safe mode? I cannot run the raidxpert utility at all it just says server not responding!

 

[drkatz42]

Absolutely, get your files backed up pronto...

 

[USAFRet]

Your personal files are the first consideration.
OS and applications second.

After that...rebuild that RAID thing. Or just do away with it.

RAID 0 should never be run without an automated daily backup.

 

[flamery]

okay after a few attempts, I did manage to get raidxpert control panel to open, it showed one of the drives had 1 bad sector and had taken it offline. I got a new drive, so I will try and copy all the files across from the raid to the single spindle drive luckily its not a system drive just a files drive but I may still do it through a linux live disk.

does anyone know how I can go about changing the drive letters around easily, Ill need to name my new drive D as all my links will be pointing to that drive letter, under linux preferably!

 

[USAFRet]

okay after a few attempts, I did manage to get raidxpert control panel to open, it showed one of the drives had 1 bad sector and had taken it offline. I got a new drive, so I will try and copy all the files across from the raid to the single spindle drive luckily its not a system drive just a files drive but I may still do it through a linux live disk.

does anyone know how I can go about changing the drive letters around easily, Ill need to name my new drive D as all my links will be pointing to that drive letter, under linux preferably!

1. Linux doesn't use drive letters.
2. If one drive dropped out of that RAID 0, unlikely you can retrieve anything off the other drive. Generally, a failed RAID 0 = loss of all data on both drives in the stripe.

 

[flamery]

I ended up just copying and pasting the files inside Windows safe mode, as I say inside Safe mode there is no indication of any issues and I can seem to see all the files, its taking a while, only writing at 20MBps so 3.5 TB is going to take a few days.

Once everything is copied across, Ill swap the drive letters around, reboot and I should then be able to start figuring out what has/has not been corrupted hopefully nothing important.

I am glad to be getting rid of this RAID, I knew I was always on a knife edge running this in my home PC, the only reason I did so was because 2Tb were the largest sized drives you could buy at the time and I needed more storage space.

 

[USAFRet]

I am glad to be getting rid of this RAID, I knew I was always on a knife edge running this in my home PC, the only reason I did so was because 2Tb were the largest sized drives you could buy at the time and I needed more storage space.

2TB + 2TB + RAID 0 = 4TB drive space.
2TB + 2TB with no RAID 0 = 4TB drive space (just with 2 drive letters).