Archive for the 'raid recovery' Category

How to deal with collection agencies trying to collect after the statue of limitation has past?

Portfolio Recoveries is a bottom=feeder of a collection agency that is trying to force me to pay on a debt after the statue of limitation has passed. This repo bill came way out of left field meanign aI did not know it exist. But it has been over 10 years. Any suggestions? I do not [...]

RAID 0 – An error has occurred?

My computer has 2 750GB hard drives in RAID 0. When I went to start it up today, it says that an error has occurred beside one of the disks. It says it it still bootable, but I can’t get the PC to start Windows. Should I just do system recovery and re-install the operating [...]

Help with HP system recovery?

I recently had an issue with one of my hard drives in RAID 0, so I had to order recovery discs from HP and reinstall the operating system. I just finished running the discs, and everything seemed to have completed successfully. After finishing, it instructed me to reboot the computer. When it loaded back up, [...]

Hard Drive Recovery Help?

My friend has a Dell Dimension 8400 Desktop computer and he was having some random electrical problems. The computer has two hard drives running a RAID 1 array (software not hardware). The HDD’s use SATA cables. Long story short, I got a similar dell power supply and replaced the bad one with the good one [...]

will this work for Hard Drive recovery?

I have a raid 0 computer. I defraged my computer with a bad sector on one of the hard drives. I now need to recover some data.
Can i recover data by plugging one HD at a time into a 2.5" HD enclosure and having another computer take the data off it?
Sure providing the drive is [...]

hardware Raid Data Recovery problem!?

I have on my server 2 x 1000GB Seagate hard drives connected to a raid controller, which means both have the same data. One day they both stopped working. both have the same damage.
I need to recover the data is very important! I usually use a data recovery program but in this case is [...]

Is data recovery possible in this situation?

I had two SATA 250GB drive in a RAID 0 setup. Both working together. My primary SATA hard drive had a malfunction and I had to remove it, and replaced it with a new drive. Computer works fine.
But unfortunately I lost some data. I can’t even find it in my backup. [...]

Motherboard Swap to keep raid (ICH5) functionality.?

My old desktop died a few months ago as a capacitor blew on the motherboard. Unfortunately I had a raid 0 set-up for my data and can no longer access that data. I’ve tried various USB to sata connections and recovery software to no avail.
I want to resurrect this machine in order to access those [...]

My Hard Drive was wiped and i have no recovery disks, what do i do?

A few days ago I had a problem with my computer . I acidently unhooked my 2 hard drives. I was able to conect them again but it wiped my hard drive. Do i need to buy an all new os disk? (I think i have RAID 0, i dont knoiw much about computers.)
try reversing [...]

Data recovery using Linux?

My Vista install cannot boot. I’m attempting to recover data from a RAID 0 array. I can boot other OS’s off of USB keys, and I have done so easily. I need an OS, presumably a Linux environment with a GUI, that can read the array. It is an Nvidia "fakeraid", that was made in [...]