Recent content by Alerin

This is what I'm hoping for. I'm going to use the WD disk analyzer program and then go from there. Possibly try the drives on a different controller. I already tried different cables. We'll see if I can come up with anything when I open the case back up this weekend.

Can you give me any advice or point me to a program I could use? I've never tried recovering a hard drive before.. I've lost a few, but never really been gung-ho about recovering the data.

Well, I'm not convinced that the drive actually failed. If you had read my post completely, I stated that the Promise bios sees both the drives, but designates one of them as "drive 1" and the other as "free"

Thank you, I am aware of that. I don't have the screen available to me at the moment, but I wasn't trying to define a new array, i believe the option said "rebuild array".

The one in the promise raid setup.

Yes, I tried recreating the array already, couldn't do it. I know about the risks of a raid0 array, I only run apps and os on it, except I was in the process of shuffling some files around, which I would really like to recover!

Important Info: Hard Drives: (2) Western Digital Raptor 360's Motherboard: P4P800-E Deluxe Raid Controller: Promise So I went to the Seattle Auto Show Saturday night and came back to find my computer asking me to please insert valid media to boot from or whatever that screen said. While I...

Inline connector + heatshrink over the whole thing = clean and a good connection.