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sigh, time to learn more stuff

jojo69

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OK, pretty sure I fucked up here

X58 setup, intel controller, 2 WD black 1TB in RAID 1, win7 is on a separate SSD

one of my games starts stuttering for no reason, I try rolling back the last windows update, still does it, I get to diagnosing and some levels do it, some don't, and some won't even load.

At this point I start thinking disk, at which point I notice that only one of the drive lights is flickering with activity, go into disk management and it tells me that one of the blacks is offline because it has a name collision with the other one. I reboot and try to get into the Intel RAID BIOS, box boots to windows...WTF?

So I get into the mobo BIOS and discover the SATA is set to IDE mode. No idea how or when that happened. I had it on RAID obviously, I know I didn't change it, My overclock is still in effect so its not like the CMOS got cleared accidentally...WTAF?

So I set it back to RAID, look in the RAID BIOS, looks good there, go to reboot and it wants to run checkdisk, let it, get into windows and everything is fucked up, icons have no graphic, main folders are inaccessible/corrupt...fuck

reboot and it wants to run checkdisk again, and every time I reboot, I think it is deleting more crap every time.

do I have any hope at all?
 
Well it's in RAID 1 so there really shouldn't be anything to recalculate. Whatever is on one should be on another. However, this might be an issue with one of the drives failing and it affecting the good drive.

Take a look at the smartinfo and just make sure both drives are healthy with little to no errors on them. If so pull your data down from your backups and reinstall from that. If not then just use one drive until you can get a hold of a replacement.
 
In my experience, any time I experienced issues with an over clocked system, the first thing I would do is remove the over clock ruling it out as causing any problems. I'm not saying it was the cause of your problems, but I have seen over clocks cause some weird shit, since you are basically pushing a system beyond its spec. I agree with the other poster, sounds like chkdsk corrupted your system. Did you lose data or its just a pain to reinstall everything I guess?
 
i had an overclock that was 100% stable in torture tests and gaming, but it would slowly degrade 1 drive in a raid 1 array and anytime the machine rebooted i would see MDADM warning for degraded array (linux software mirror for the OS drives) and while monitoring the array i noticed that it would go from OK to repaing seemingly at random. finally i bumped down the OC a smidge and all was well.
 
OK, I know the mantra, "RAID is not a backup" and no, nothing is actually gone, but what is a RAID 1 even for if not as a sort of buffer to backup...so yes, a total pain for sure. The most interesting question to me; how the fuck did the BIOS get set to IDE mode randomly. I don't really think an overclock can do that, sure, anything written to the OS disk...yeah...but not to BIOS.

So I ran the system in IDE mode gawd knows how long, wrote to one disk and not the other. Then maybe the one online gets some bad sectors, which is when I notice. Then I fuck up and let chkdsk run...I guess, not sure where you are supposed to learn not to do that.

So now I guess I am mounting both of these on other systems and seeing what is still on them...any recovery tips folks? it takes a village...
 
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