Bill Anderson

Kerry Brown wrote:
> Combining RAID 0 with a dynamic disk is a disaster waiting to happen.
> When one of the drives fails you will lose the data with very little
> hope of recovery unless you have a current backup. The fact that in all
> OS' the volume is showing errors is very disturbing and indicative of a
> bad drive. Are there any errors in any of the event logs in any of the
> OS' that are errors reading or writing to this volume?
>

Yes, there were error reports all over the place in the event logs, all
dealing with bad sectors on K:, the dynamic drive -- the RAID array.

I ran Checkdisk on the drive from within Windows and it did find errors.
I've copied everything off the drive again and reformatted it -- this
time a full format. I'm running Checkdisk on it again, as I'm typing
this. Disk Manager still reports that the drive has errors and is at
risk, though healthy, whatever that means.

My current RAID array is the only RAID array I've ever dealt with. As
it seemed to be working fine, I have never been too concerned about Disk
Manager reporting errors. I figured that was standard for a RAID array.
So here goes with a dumb question: If you have a RAID array, would
you please look at it in Disk Manager and tell me whether it shows up
clean with no errors, with no "at risk" flag? Have I been ignoring
something really important for the past six months? The drive does tell
me it's "healthy," after all.

Checkdisk continues to run. This time I'm running it in Vista. We'll
see what happens in the morning. And thanks for alerting me to the
event log. I hadn't thought to look there.

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Bill Anderson

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