Ohio BS thread!

[jaged]

im sure that you can come and watch on saturday. wanna hit up hooters afterwards?

[Tygerr]

I got to run it by the misses first. Since she'll be up this weekend from C-bus.

[jaged]

or la bambas, thats good isht, and less boobie

[Pyro81]

Okay, so i pulled my external drives apart and hooked them up to my computer. When i started the computer the drive from the 500 gig started making the same noise it was doing before. So it's definitely a problem with the drive itself.

My computer did read the 1 tb drive (which is really two 500 gig drives) but it says the data is corrupt. So it looks like i'll have to format it. I'll loose data on it but luckily there wasn't much.

Now i just need to figure out what i want to do with the 500 gig drive (aka paper weight)...

[jaged]

skeet shooting? or throw it in the fire at your meet

[marinofan]

Originally Posted by Pyro81

Okay, so i pulled my external drives apart and hooked them up to my computer. When i started the computer the drive from the 500 gig started making the same noise it was doing before. So it's definitely a problem with the drive itself.

My computer did read the 1 tb drive (which is really two 500 gig drives) but it says the data is corrupt. So it looks like i'll have to format it. I'll loose data on it but luckily there wasn't much.

Now i just need to figure out what i want to do with the 500 gig drive (aka paper weight)...

Try acronis.com for the one that will still read if you haven't already formatted it. It brought back 2 drives that I had that all the info got lost, its free to try and it will tell you if it will work or not. Took it 10 minutes to fix mine.

[nadthomas]

The problem with reading the data from the two 500GB drives is probably that the external enclosure also had a raid controller which configured the drives into a 1TB RAID 0. So when you pull them out of the enclosure and break the array and try to read them separately the data appears corrupt.

[Pyro81]

Originally Posted by nadthomas

The problem with reading the data from the two 500GB drives is probably that the external enclosure also had a raid controller which configured the drives into a 1TB RAID 0. So when you pull them out of the enclosure and break the array and try to read them separately the data appears corrupt.

I haven't formatted them just yet. So is there a way to set up my computer to do the same thing? It's actually already reading them as a single drive.

[Tygerr]

Hello oHIo.

Brian. I believe you'd have to set up a raid for the two drives. I belive most motherboards have an onboard raid controller to do this, but I've never messed with it before.

So they're reading as one single drive, or two seperate single drives? If they're reading as two seperate drives, why would you want to connect them together?

[Pyro81]

At the moment it's reading the two drives as a one single drive. I did read in the manual about messing with the raid controller, but decided not to and just hooked them up. So at the moment the computer reads the two drives as one but it can't recognize the data that is on them. I was wondering if i can do something that will enable the computer to be able to read the data that is currently on them.