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just lost 400 gigs worth of data b/c of vista.......lame

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  1. demon77

    demon77 Member

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    So i just got my new pc, and B/C of the lame "sleep" mode in vista, it resetted my bios and crashed my raid 5 (Five 1TB hard drive setup with onboard intel raid 5....lucky i didn't add all the data to it). So look like massive download ahead for the next few month :/

    but......

    damn whoever came up with this power saving BS!!!! :mad: :mad:


    ps. i could recover the data(like i could see all the directory and files), but its not 100% ......and it take around 13-14 hour to scan all five 1tb hard drive....so beh.
     
    #1 demon77, Aug 26, 2008
  2. percicles

    percicles Contributing Member

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    So much p*rn so little HD space.
     
    #2 percicles, Aug 26, 2008
  3. aussie rocket

    aussie rocket Member

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    Hear too many bad stories about Vista.

    Thinking it will be best to stay with XP until they get their stuff together.
     
    #3 aussie rocket, Aug 26, 2008
  4. cdastros

    cdastros Member

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    Time to buy a mac.
     
    #4 cdastros, Aug 26, 2008
  5. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    What backup program do you use to back up your 400 GB of data?
     
    #5 bobrek, Aug 26, 2008
  6. 111chase111

    111chase111 Contributing Member

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    Yes. What did you use to backup all that data?
     
    #6 111chase111, Aug 26, 2008
  7. SwoLy-D

    SwoLy-D Contributing Member

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    Sounds like you're blaming an operating system you didn't know how to use.

    Why do people get so upset about something they know so little about? :confused:

    Isn't RAID's purpose to replace data quickly?
     
    #7 SwoLy-D, Aug 26, 2008
  8. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    The other question I have is:

    What do you mean it "resetted (sic)" your BIOS and how did that cause you to lose all that data?
     
    #8 bobrek, Aug 26, 2008
  9. Hayesfan

    Hayesfan Contributing Member

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    I've had no problems with vista since I got it. (knock on wood)

    I'm not quite understanding how you lost everything either.
     
    #9 Hayesfan, Aug 26, 2008
  10. ima_drummer2k

    ima_drummer2k Contributing Member

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    I don't know what I would do if I lost 400 gigs. Probably file for bankruptcy.
     
    #10 ima_drummer2k, Aug 26, 2008
  11. Invisible Fan

    Invisible Fan Contributing Member

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    I thought RAID setups were supposed to prevent ****ups like this...

    If you haven't added any data to your drives, you could probably run HDD recovery software and get some data back.

    p.s.
    Did you just lose a whole lotta pr0n?
     
    #11 Invisible Fan, Aug 26, 2008
  12. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Well, if Quagmire lost 400 Gigs, his tagline would have to be:

    "ity, ity"
     
    #12 bobrek, Aug 26, 2008
  13. droxford

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    I've heard from several unrelated people that, when they upgraded to Vista, it disabled the on-board sound on their motherboard. It doesn't surprise me at all that it disabled your RAID.

    Thankfully, my home computer is not powerful enough. Windows XP is fine with me.
     
    #13 droxford, Aug 26, 2008
  14. Master Baiter

    Master Baiter Contributing Member

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    #14 Master Baiter, Aug 26, 2008
  15. KingCheetah

    KingCheetah Contributing Member

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    Back up all your data in the cloud ?


    Pass.
     
    #15 KingCheetah, Aug 26, 2008
  16. Royals Ego

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    damn the weatherman for this bad weather
     
    #16 Royals Ego, Aug 26, 2008
  17. Tigerknee

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    I have 3TB of data. 94% of which is questionable... Should I still use it? :)
     
    #17 Tigerknee, Aug 26, 2008
  18. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Based on reviews, if you lost 3TB of data, it would take Carbonite, 200 days to completely restore your data. It would also take 1500 days to completley back up your system as it will only transfer 2 GB per day.
     
    #18 bobrek, Aug 26, 2008
  19. Tigerknee

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    Wel that blows...
     
    #19 Tigerknee, Aug 26, 2008
  20. rockbox

    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    Hardware raid is not a good idea for home systems. Raid cards uses proprietary metadata to identify the raid drives and lays data down in a proprietary way. If the card fails, you have to find the exact same card to replace it with and that is only if the card supports importing foreign drives.
     
    #20 rockbox, Aug 26, 2008
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