Alienware M17X: Raid 0 Recovery (SOLVED!!!)
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:32 pm
Hi
About three days ago, I came home from work to my Alienware M17x laptop with a blue screen. The PC was working fine before I left that morning, but since I came back home it would not boot back up. I couldn't even get into safe mode and when I ran a diagnostics, it claimed a hard drive was failing. I have two OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB SSDs running on raid 0 and I wasn't sure until now which one was dead. I have had them for about 2-3 years. Either way, I felt my data was gone but I had an external drive sitting off in the corner (Western Digital 1.5 TB) with a backup about 2-3 months old.
I decided to plug it into my work laptop I brought home and see how far back I really was even though I didn't lose anything crucial. The drive started to beep and would not mount. After Googling, I found that this symptom means the drive was failing. I could not believe it. Two drives in one day and the external was just sitting off in the corner for months. Since then I have been Googling and researching for days with little sleep trying to find anyway or any software that could help me recover or restore my data.
Ultimately, I came across R-Studio which is why I am here. I downloaded the emergency boot demo and after playing with it for a bit and scanning my partitions/drives, I can see my files. The problem is I'm not sure I how to do is recover them or set the virtual raid properly to make them recoverable. At first, I ran scans to see if I could recover the files manually but I clearly did not know what I was doing. I am using my work laptop to browse, research and use R-Studio. I decided to make an image of both drives and put them on an external HD I purchased from Best Buy the other night. I did the images byte by byte if this matters or not.
When I run a scan and it completes on a drive, most folders and files the ones I want to recover have RED Xs on them. These are from ORANGE recognized entries. Some pictures that I recover show up jumbled up with part of the image displaying, while some files will not display at all. Archives are corrupted and music won't play. I must be halfway there at least I think I am to get this far. I feel I am missing a simple step because my files are right in front of me. I can see the names of the files, directories and size at this point. I think I need to setup a virtual raid and possibly make an image of that, then try to recover.
Worst case scenario for me is I replace the bad drive and get assistance restoring the images I have or Best Buy can recover something from the external I gave them to repair.
Thanks for reading.
Alienware M17X
2X 512GB OCZ 4 Vertex SSD on RAID 0
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
About three days ago, I came home from work to my Alienware M17x laptop with a blue screen. The PC was working fine before I left that morning, but since I came back home it would not boot back up. I couldn't even get into safe mode and when I ran a diagnostics, it claimed a hard drive was failing. I have two OCZ Vertex 4 512 GB SSDs running on raid 0 and I wasn't sure until now which one was dead. I have had them for about 2-3 years. Either way, I felt my data was gone but I had an external drive sitting off in the corner (Western Digital 1.5 TB) with a backup about 2-3 months old.
I decided to plug it into my work laptop I brought home and see how far back I really was even though I didn't lose anything crucial. The drive started to beep and would not mount. After Googling, I found that this symptom means the drive was failing. I could not believe it. Two drives in one day and the external was just sitting off in the corner for months. Since then I have been Googling and researching for days with little sleep trying to find anyway or any software that could help me recover or restore my data.
Ultimately, I came across R-Studio which is why I am here. I downloaded the emergency boot demo and after playing with it for a bit and scanning my partitions/drives, I can see my files. The problem is I'm not sure I how to do is recover them or set the virtual raid properly to make them recoverable. At first, I ran scans to see if I could recover the files manually but I clearly did not know what I was doing. I am using my work laptop to browse, research and use R-Studio. I decided to make an image of both drives and put them on an external HD I purchased from Best Buy the other night. I did the images byte by byte if this matters or not.
When I run a scan and it completes on a drive, most folders and files the ones I want to recover have RED Xs on them. These are from ORANGE recognized entries. Some pictures that I recover show up jumbled up with part of the image displaying, while some files will not display at all. Archives are corrupted and music won't play. I must be halfway there at least I think I am to get this far. I feel I am missing a simple step because my files are right in front of me. I can see the names of the files, directories and size at this point. I think I need to setup a virtual raid and possibly make an image of that, then try to recover.
Worst case scenario for me is I replace the bad drive and get assistance restoring the images I have or Best Buy can recover something from the external I gave them to repair.
Thanks for reading.
Alienware M17X
2X 512GB OCZ 4 Vertex SSD on RAID 0
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit