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11-08-04, 12:27 AM
A month or 2 ago, I bought a fastrack s150 raid card and 2 200mb SATA wd HDD's for system in sig. I didnt know this card was RAID only and since it was going to take a while to swap/collect card etc, I kept it and used it with the 200mb and 2 x 120PATA WD drives. Extra storage for me.
Now the mobo in sig has problems with the southbridge and if u put the card in a 33mhz slot, it will be VERY slow. If u put the card in a 66mhz slot, the data will corrupt if moved, due to running at 66mhz. The fix for the data corruption is to put a card in the other 66mhz slot that is 66mhz compatable.
Anyway, things seemed to be running fine untill, computer pauses/hangs, windows HDD checks at boot etc started happening, esp with the SATA drives. The mobo was killing my data.
I got fed up with this and many problems that old mobo/setup had so I went and bought: 3500+ AMD64, MSI k8 neo2 platinum and fast ram, raptor etc.
When I first installed this time, I could access the data on that raid setup sporadically and if I tried to copy the data out, after a while it would freeze. (was trying to copy all, then reformat)
I got about a third of my data out but want the rest.
THE PROBLEM NOW.
When I plug in the 2 SATA drives to the card, windows takes a VERY long time to load and when it does, 'my computer' takes a very long time to come up (is blank in folder with torch searching). Shows as "not responding" is task manager.
If 'my computer' does eventually load, the drive in question shows a blank spot where the size and available space of the HDD is.
Clicking on the drive causes yet more down time and the drive cant be accessed. I tried to go into computer management/disk management and the drive shows up there. Trying to open it gets a message saying somthing about "IO ERROR" cannot be accesed.??
Is there anyway I can salvage this drive and its important data?
I havent run diag tools from WD as I thought I cant access the drive.
Safe mode dosent help
The slow-down completely disappears when the drives are unplugged
In bootup, the raid card inteface shows both RAID setups as "functioning"
The other drives work fine (2x120g PATA)
H E L P...
Now the mobo in sig has problems with the southbridge and if u put the card in a 33mhz slot, it will be VERY slow. If u put the card in a 66mhz slot, the data will corrupt if moved, due to running at 66mhz. The fix for the data corruption is to put a card in the other 66mhz slot that is 66mhz compatable.
Anyway, things seemed to be running fine untill, computer pauses/hangs, windows HDD checks at boot etc started happening, esp with the SATA drives. The mobo was killing my data.
I got fed up with this and many problems that old mobo/setup had so I went and bought: 3500+ AMD64, MSI k8 neo2 platinum and fast ram, raptor etc.
When I first installed this time, I could access the data on that raid setup sporadically and if I tried to copy the data out, after a while it would freeze. (was trying to copy all, then reformat)
I got about a third of my data out but want the rest.
THE PROBLEM NOW.
When I plug in the 2 SATA drives to the card, windows takes a VERY long time to load and when it does, 'my computer' takes a very long time to come up (is blank in folder with torch searching). Shows as "not responding" is task manager.
If 'my computer' does eventually load, the drive in question shows a blank spot where the size and available space of the HDD is.
Clicking on the drive causes yet more down time and the drive cant be accessed. I tried to go into computer management/disk management and the drive shows up there. Trying to open it gets a message saying somthing about "IO ERROR" cannot be accesed.??
Is there anyway I can salvage this drive and its important data?
I havent run diag tools from WD as I thought I cant access the drive.
Safe mode dosent help
The slow-down completely disappears when the drives are unplugged
In bootup, the raid card inteface shows both RAID setups as "functioning"
The other drives work fine (2x120g PATA)
H E L P...