Post by Seph on Nov 6, 2006 9:03:03 GMT -5
Here's the skinny-- on my desktop machine, I have a RAID array. I forget what the magic number is, but it's the kind where two HDDs combine to form one colossal entity and act as one drive. As anyone who can help me will know, Windows needs special drivers for these things.
Somehow, someway, the drivers were removed from my system without my knowledge. So obviously, now when Windows tries to find my System directory, it just isn't there. Not only that, but since I was unaware these drivers were now gone, I had written to the disk several times for various things.
This worries me, because while I'm not the most hardware-oriented person around, I know that when I write to disk on something that's supposed to be formatted very specifically, it kind of mucks things up. Therefore, I have some questions:
1) Are my existing files fine? This is the most important. I want to make sure I didn't just lose about three month's worth of work that I hadn't backed up.
2) Is there a way to recover my data without formatting? I had two partitions on the array-- C: was my Windows directory, and D: was for everything else (music, pictures, art, projects, et cetera).
3) Can I restore my system without reformatting? I'm not sure how I'd magically install new RAID drivers, really, but if anyone knows if there's a way around this, please let me know.
Somehow, someway, the drivers were removed from my system without my knowledge. So obviously, now when Windows tries to find my System directory, it just isn't there. Not only that, but since I was unaware these drivers were now gone, I had written to the disk several times for various things.
This worries me, because while I'm not the most hardware-oriented person around, I know that when I write to disk on something that's supposed to be formatted very specifically, it kind of mucks things up. Therefore, I have some questions:
1) Are my existing files fine? This is the most important. I want to make sure I didn't just lose about three month's worth of work that I hadn't backed up.
2) Is there a way to recover my data without formatting? I had two partitions on the array-- C: was my Windows directory, and D: was for everything else (music, pictures, art, projects, et cetera).
3) Can I restore my system without reformatting? I'm not sure how I'd magically install new RAID drivers, really, but if anyone knows if there's a way around this, please let me know.
