...seems to be the most popular topic of the New Year. Fortunately, I won't be going anywhere for the foreseeable future
I haven't been around much over the holidays, between work and computer "issues", but hopefully that will change shortly.
I won't have anything more to do with RAID arrays though. Seems like problems crop up for me every year around November. This time my computer started acting flakey, so I figured it was time for an upgrade. Copied everything on my 500 gig RAID array to my backup drive (as I learned from the last time what a pain it can be to move a RAID setup from one motherboard to another). Install the drives with the new MOBO (and, of course, new ram, new graphics card, etc, since all the old stuff wouldn't work with the new MOBO), boot it up, and what does it do? It tries to add my backup drive to a RAID array, wiping out the MBR (and temporarily, all my Trainz data with it).
Three words: Active@ Partition Recovery. Great program. Several other recovery programs wouldn't touch my drive, Easeus Data Recovery would restore my data from the drive (but said it would take 60 hours), Active@ Partition Recovery in a matter of minutes scanned the drive, wrote a new MBR, and saved all my data IN PLACE (meaning I didn't need another 500 Gigs to restore it to).
Anyway, I'm currently in the process of re-installing all my software (as after all that, I figured a nice clean Windows install was the way to go), so it'll be a short while before I can get out any of the stuff I was working on before all this happened (and, of course, my monitor died around the same time, fortunately it was under warranty, though it cost over $40 to ship it out for repairs and God only knows when I'll get it back, fortunately I've got an old Viewsonic 20" LCD I'm using as a backup).
Just figured I'd drop everyone a note to let them know what was going on, and that I hadn't run off anywhere.
I haven't been around much over the holidays, between work and computer "issues", but hopefully that will change shortly.
I won't have anything more to do with RAID arrays though. Seems like problems crop up for me every year around November. This time my computer started acting flakey, so I figured it was time for an upgrade. Copied everything on my 500 gig RAID array to my backup drive (as I learned from the last time what a pain it can be to move a RAID setup from one motherboard to another). Install the drives with the new MOBO (and, of course, new ram, new graphics card, etc, since all the old stuff wouldn't work with the new MOBO), boot it up, and what does it do? It tries to add my backup drive to a RAID array, wiping out the MBR (and temporarily, all my Trainz data with it).
Three words: Active@ Partition Recovery. Great program. Several other recovery programs wouldn't touch my drive, Easeus Data Recovery would restore my data from the drive (but said it would take 60 hours), Active@ Partition Recovery in a matter of minutes scanned the drive, wrote a new MBR, and saved all my data IN PLACE (meaning I didn't need another 500 Gigs to restore it to).
Anyway, I'm currently in the process of re-installing all my software (as after all that, I figured a nice clean Windows install was the way to go), so it'll be a short while before I can get out any of the stuff I was working on before all this happened (and, of course, my monitor died around the same time, fortunately it was under warranty, though it cost over $40 to ship it out for repairs and God only knows when I'll get it back, fortunately I've got an old Viewsonic 20" LCD I'm using as a backup).
Just figured I'd drop everyone a note to let them know what was going on, and that I hadn't run off anywhere.
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Anyway, glad you've been able to sort out your problems and that we can all look forward to a bright (Trainz) future.
