Hello everyone,
First of all I'm not 100% sure this is ONLY(or at all?) Win7 related but since a lot of my questions involve changing or moving my OS i figured i should start here)
The problem I am having consists of my RAID volume( that I use for OS + data) has recently come back with an Error Occured message during the RAID controller. Before I've also noticed problems in booting to windows. It would simply "freeze" during boot up, not normal freeze since the animation still went on, but the HDD led goes blank and just gets stuck (which makes sense if it cant find that windows file). Before though, it always managed to get through it after a few tries, so I got to chance to back up the things most dear to me.
However today seemed to be the last straw. Couldn't get it to boot up anymore, so i installed another windows on a different (non-RAID) drive.
However someone pointed out these forums to me and perhaps there is another way to atleast be able to use that RAID drive by somehow isolating the "bad" sector and moving the windows file to someplace it can read correctly from.
The drive itself I have also had the same kind of "error occurred" message before, but at that time i figured i had just done something wrong software wise to xxxx it up. However after i remade the RAID volume it worked like a charm for about 4months, until now, which leads me to believe it must be the drive itself
A couple of questions I have about this:
1. Can i still use this drive in or out of RAID (if not in a RAID then atleast keep it as a normal drive)
2. Can I move the windows file to another location on the drive so windows can load it properly and just keep on using the RAID 0 while trying to "avoid" the problem
3. Can i repair the RAID volume without losing all the data and/or without having to replace the drive ?
4. If the RAID itself cannot be salvaged, can i somehow make a windows image from it and use that to restore everything without using the same setup (RAID 0) but for example a RAID 1 or even single disk ?
A thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time to read & answer
First of all I'm not 100% sure this is ONLY(or at all?) Win7 related but since a lot of my questions involve changing or moving my OS i figured i should start here)
The problem I am having consists of my RAID volume( that I use for OS + data) has recently come back with an Error Occured message during the RAID controller. Before I've also noticed problems in booting to windows. It would simply "freeze" during boot up, not normal freeze since the animation still went on, but the HDD led goes blank and just gets stuck (which makes sense if it cant find that windows file). Before though, it always managed to get through it after a few tries, so I got to chance to back up the things most dear to me.
However today seemed to be the last straw. Couldn't get it to boot up anymore, so i installed another windows on a different (non-RAID) drive.
However someone pointed out these forums to me and perhaps there is another way to atleast be able to use that RAID drive by somehow isolating the "bad" sector and moving the windows file to someplace it can read correctly from.
The drive itself I have also had the same kind of "error occurred" message before, but at that time i figured i had just done something wrong software wise to xxxx it up. However after i remade the RAID volume it worked like a charm for about 4months, until now, which leads me to believe it must be the drive itself
A couple of questions I have about this:
1. Can i still use this drive in or out of RAID (if not in a RAID then atleast keep it as a normal drive)
2. Can I move the windows file to another location on the drive so windows can load it properly and just keep on using the RAID 0 while trying to "avoid" the problem
3. Can i repair the RAID volume without losing all the data and/or without having to replace the drive ?
4. If the RAID itself cannot be salvaged, can i somehow make a windows image from it and use that to restore everything without using the same setup (RAID 0) but for example a RAID 1 or even single disk ?
A thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time to read & answer