The next machine with a bad hard drive was my server. This server has been running as a server in our home for about 8 years. HAH! Now that is not to say that we haven’t done upgrades, because we have. We have always kept the “data” area of the drive separate and even though […]
Recovering a Spanned RAID Set Without RAID Software
Recently it was my displeasure to work on a three drive spanned set for NT 4.0. The set was soft configured so when the boot drive went down, with all of the configuration data for the RAID on it, the RAID would not mount. In addition to that, this was a multi volume set. […]
Use Bad Block Frequency to Determine a RAID 5 Stale Drive
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 […]