My nephew sent this to me, can anyone offer tech advice? Thanks.
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I hope with your connections you can help me out. Our hard drive crashed this week. I have no idea how/why. I just checked it about two weeks ago for data integrity and everything passed with flying colors. Then BAM….can't access the drives!
Our system is a RAID 0 system. This means that we have 2 hard drives that split the data between them (1/2 of a file on one drive, 1/2 of the file on the other drive). This greatly increases the data access speeds. Unfortunately this also causes some severe issues when they die….you need both to access your data. If one HD fails you loose everything!!!
Do you know anybody that deals in Data Recovery that might be able to help us out? I'm currently trying to use SPINRITE 6 (www.grc.com). Unfortunately its got 160 more hours to go (at its current rate). Its finding A LOT of problems on the drive and I'm not sure if I'll be able to boot them after this system is done running. If I can, I'm all set as I'll put a new HD in the box and copy everything. If I can't then I need the help of a professional data recovery team.
One issue I do have is that there are some files on those drives that may not be deemed legal. I've got a few movies backed up, MP3's and more that could red flag those drives depending on how close somebody looks at them.
All I really want is all my pictures and financial items back. That's about 200MB of data. Everything else I can rebuild over about 2~3 weeks, but the financial records date back 6 years! That would take months to put back into the system.
I know, why didn't I back up the machine! The ironic thing on that? I was going to this weekend. Chris and I had just talked about it a couple weeks ago. I was planning on getting a Firewire External HD and dump the data, I was also going to put the data on DVD. Somebody knew something!
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