Anyone ever used or formatted a "Bart Disk" ?

[Ned]

God I cant to see what henno is going to do with this thread!!!!!!!!!! (Dope)


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Have a Raid set up with twin 80 gig drives.

However one of the drives has failed.

One suggestion has been to format a Bart Disk and try to recover data from the remaining mirrored drive.

Comments ?

[markTHEblake]

isnt a bart disk, something that you can download from the usual P2P networks, that has like 100 disk utilities on it

[Ned]

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

[LarryLong]

BartPE is like a bootable windows environment, isn't it?

I had a similar problem and used something called the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (or UBCD4Win). It worked well for me, got me up and running to an OS and I could recover my system. That's a bit different to data loss or a HDD going down though.

That said, if you've got two mirrored drives, isn't the whole idea that you can basically chuck one of them away and still keep all your data? If not, I know there are data recovery programs around that will look at drives that have deleted data and all sorts of things like that and recover stuff. There's probably something free around that you could use.

[Ned]

BartPE is like a bootable windows environment, isn't it?

I had a similar problem and used something called the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (or UBCD4Win). It worked well for me, got me up and running to an OS and I could recover my system. That's a bit different to data loss or a HDD going down though.

That said, if you've got two mirrored drives, isn't the whole idea that you can basically chuck one of them away and still keep all your data? If not, I know there are data recovery programs around that will look at drives that have deleted data and all sorts of things like that and recover stuff. There's probably something free around that you could use.

Whilst its mirrored, it needs to HDD's to make the RAID set up work.

And trying to get a hold of a SATA 80 gig HDD is near impossible. (Most common HDD these days is a 160 gig IDE set up.)

[markTHEblake]

BartPE is like a bootable windows environment, isn't it?

yep thats what i was thinking of.


I had a similar problem and used something called the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (or UBCD4Win).i think that one might be all Free software, there is another thing called Roadstarter or something like that which all pirated software.




And trying to get a hold of a SATA 80 gig HDD is near impossible. (Most common HDD these days is a 160 gig IDE set up.)

there for sale everywhere! just maybe not in the sticks i guess.

[henno]

This is all dependant on the type of RAID array. (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6)?

For only two disks it is obviously striped or mirrored, and I'll assume the latter otherwise all is lost anyway. (RAID 0 provides absolutely no redundancy.)

Also, if you plan on trying to recover data, I would stress that the HDD should be mounted in read-only mode.

I have absolutely no experience with a "Bart Disc" so I can't help you there. I'd boot a linux OS, mount the NTFS partition ro and have your data copied to another drive within the hour. :-)

[henno]

Also, there is nothing stopping someone from adding a larger HDD to a raid array. The only drawback is that the size of the RAID 1 array is only as large as the smallest disc.

[kev]

never mind. ignore me.

[Courty]

Just chuck it out & re-download all the pr0n again. ;)

[Ned]

Just chuck it out & re-download all the pr0n again. ;)


3 drives (1 is OS, 2 are the RAID - 80 GIG X 2)

Its one of the RAIDS thats died which is the data side.:(

[henno]

Ned, does the RAID have a total capacity of 80G or 160G?

[schwartzy]

If it is mirrored (raid 1) put in another disk (must be larger or equal to capacity of the first drive) an the system will rebuild itself. If it is striped (raid 0) you are out of luck.

[henno]

If it is mirrored (raid 1) put in another disk (must be larger or equal to capacity of the first drive) an the system will rebuild itself. If it is striped (raid 0) you are out of luck.

Is there an echo in here? ;)


For only two disks it is obviously striped or mirrored, and I'll assume the latter otherwise all is lost anyway. (RAID 0 provides absolutely no redundancy.)


there is nothing stopping someone from adding a larger HDD to a raid array. The only drawback is that the size of the RAID 1 array is only as large as the smallest disc.

[Ned]

Ned, does the RAID have a total capacity of 80G or 160G?

Its set up with TWO 80 gig drives.

[Minor_Threat]

Its set up with TWO 80 gig drives.Yes but are they Striped (RAID 0) 160G Total or Mirrored (RAID 1) 80G Total????

[Ned]

Yes but are they Striped (RAID 0) 160G Total or Mirrored (RAID 1) 80G Total????


Oh yeah, sorry mirrired raid 1

[henno]

Just buy another HDD and throw it in there. The array will rebuild, although you'll still only have 80G available no matter what size HDD you buy (bigger than 80G of course).

[Ned]

Just buy another HDD and throw it in there. The array will rebuild, although you'll still only have 80G available no matter what size HDD you buy (bigger than 80G of course).

One on its way!:mrgreen:

[henno]

Problem solved!

[markTHEblake]

shoudnt mirrored raid continue working fine when one drive fails.
i thought that was bloody idea of mirroring them.