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Dell workstation on a perc 320/DC scsi card with 4 drives in Raid 0
all of the sudden today this workstation that has been working fine for years gave the blue screen of death and then acts like there is no bootable device on restart. So I start to troubleshoot and find that 2 of the sata drives are turned off in the bios. that made no difference but they are on now. I try to go to the PERC card (ctrl A) utility and it shows the drives, but says there is no array. when i go to create array it says the drives are full and it wants me to initialize the drives. so the card sees the drives but not the previous array. i think initializing them will erase them right? I may be able to set up a new array and reload but I would much rather try to get back the old array.
First how did the array just drop out? seems like all four drives are there just not in an array anymore.
If i initalize the drives they will format and dump all data right?
Is there any way to save this array? or am I stuck just trying to create a new one and reload?
all of the sudden today this workstation that has been working fine for years gave the blue screen of death and then acts like there is no bootable device on restart. So I start to troubleshoot and find that 2 of the sata drives are turned off in the bios. that made no difference but they are on now. I try to go to the PERC card (ctrl A) utility and it shows the drives, but says there is no array. when i go to create array it says the drives are full and it wants me to initialize the drives. so the card sees the drives but not the previous array. i think initializing them will erase them right? I may be able to set up a new array and reload but I would much rather try to get back the old array.
First how did the array just drop out? seems like all four drives are there just not in an array anymore.
If i initalize the drives they will format and dump all data right?
Is there any way to save this array? or am I stuck just trying to create a new one and reload?