The one time I didnt use RAID........

[nitrobass24]

I got SCREWED

I have a small WHS with a couple of 400gb drives, since storage is a lil scarce at my house and at the time i didnt want to invest in $500 1TB drives. So I decided to go against my policy of always using raid on critical systems and just go with single drives.
Well 2 years later i'm awoken by the sound of my phone beeping, only to find out that my server has sent me a special email saying that im totally F*******D up.

Now that I got that all out of my system... my WD4000kd took a dump last nite.
Im using windows home server and it was one of the data drives, not the system drive.
Im currently copying everything from it to a folder on my workstation. I tried Acronis Home image but it failed to make an image. How can I recover my data and add it back to my server if at all possible. BTW I have two WD6400AAKS that will be here on Tuesday.
Also do you guys know of an open source/freeware drive imaging software I could try instead of Acronis?

Any help would be greatly appreciated... I know theres gotta be W[H]S guru out there.

 

[spazoid]

I'm still trying to understand how you could fall asleep knowing that your server harddrives could crash any moment and you know you don't have any backup of it. Even with a RAID setup, I'm amazed that you don't back it up properly if it's that important, and you seem like it is.


Anywho! Just signing up for this thread, would like to know if theres any solution, good luck!

 

[Syntax Error]

Well, I guess that's the price to pay to save a little money in the short term only to pay a high price in the long term with no data redundancy or backups.

 

[DriveEuro]

I wouldn't even try making an image. Just try to copy the files manually in windows. You're not going to get everything, but you should be able to get something.

Running 4x 1tb drives in RAID5 here for 3tb storage. Worth every penny. You learned your lesson.

 

[nitrobass24]

Yea I never wanted to backup this stuff because it holds the backups for all my other systems, and then some movies and junk but I have all those on dvd/bluray disc anyways and I can just rerip them.... its not lost but it would be very time consuming.

Well I have successfully after 14 hours retrieved all the data off of the drive. When I get home im going to try to readd it to the storage pool after the server is on with an external adapter, hopefully it will recognize it and I can pull the stuff off of it to the rest of the storage pool. ill keep this thread updated with the results.