We have been discussing the love affair I have with stale drives in a RAID five array and how best to determine if in fact one exists. I explained how the NTFS file system data is normally laid out and the fact that the old and new data, as well as how long the drive […]
Determining a Stale Hard Drive in Most RAIDs
In my last installment I covered two of the three reasons why we do a parity check. First we want to make sure that we do not have a stale hard drive in the array. Although I did not cover how one determines if in fact a stale hard drive exists, I will mention it now. […]
DART XP Data Recovery Software Now Only $49
A few weeks back I got a call from a woman who had lost the partition on her hard drive; she had all of the photos of her kids on that drive and was slightly hysterical about it. I had her download DART XP and run it on the drive; it found the partition and […]