2. Administrators Jabo Posted February 4, 2014 2. Administrators Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 So I get in from a hard days keyboard bashing at work all aglow at the prospect of fleigening with my chums this evening. Plonking myself down in my comfy chair I switch on the 'puter for a quick system check and the thing fails to boot - device not found. Odd I thought and went through the BIOS settings and I notice that at the boot device was set to one of my SSD drives rather than the RAID volume it should be. Still not too perturbed I reset the boot device to RAID, save and restart. Second boot goes past the BIOS but then fails at the RAID controller. According to a friendly screen my RAID volume now comprises 1 SSD. Now you can't make a RAID volume with 1 disk so I have to remove the array completely and then rebuild it which wipes the drives. And now I have to reinstall windows. Oh joy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted February 4, 2014 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 bummer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverDhill Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 That is why I use TrueImage to make a complete image backup to an external USB drive. Fix the drive and restore it as it was in less than 45 minutes. Also comes in handy should you ever get a virus or any other OS failure. It is well worth doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gec Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 do not lie to your self Nick. You just LOVE to take your compy apart and building it up again btw ssd in raid? like ssd is not fast enough? i have one ssd for main boot drive and my comp is booting not more than 5 - 6 sec. with ssd in strip it must fly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Painless Posted February 5, 2014 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Bloody hell Nick ! You need two computers, one to "tune up" and one standard device to leave alone as a back up for chums time. Hope you are OK for Thursday m8. P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2. Administrators Jabo Posted February 5, 2014 Author 2. Administrators Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 That is why I use TrueImage to make a complete image backup to an external USB drive. Fix the drive and restore it as it was in less than 45 minutes. Also comes in handy should you ever get a virus or any other OS failure. It is well worth doing. Not really in my case Hill, I do own TrueImage (as in bought, not a hooky copy - I know, shocking right?) but my OS setup changes frequently and I can't be bothered to keep updating the image - plus, I've never been too enamored with it's imaging capabilities - maybe it's time to have another look. do not lie to your self Nick. You just LOVE to take your compy apart and building it up again btw ssd in raid? like ssd is not fast enough? i have one ssd for main boot drive and my comp is booting not more than 5 - 6 sec. with ssd in strip it must fly! lol - maybe Pretty much yeah - plus both SSDs are SATA III and are connected to SATA III connectors on the mobo - which in theory gives a throughput of 12Gb/s although this is not possible in the real world - SATA III actual bandwidth throughput is up to 600MB/s so I could get 1.2GB/s - pretty quick. I also store a few big programs ike Adobe Photoshop and Premiere on the RAID - launching them from the SSD is a real treat. You need two computers, one to "tune up" and one standard device to leave alone as a back up for chums time. Hope you are OK for Thursday m8. P. One day Michael, one day... Anyway, 'tis all sorted now. Jabo P.S. problem was, I believe, due to a power outage followed by a big voltage spike when the power came back on screwing the settings of the RAID controller - not much I could do about that really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DD_Arthur Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Come on Jabo, give us a rough guess - how many times have you re-installed windows over the years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2. Administrators Jabo Posted February 5, 2014 Author 2. Administrators Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Lordy, I've really no idea - Are you counting 'work' as well or just my own computer at home? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverDhill Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Well 2013 version works pretty well. I have restored a few systems many times and never had a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2. Administrators Jabo Posted February 5, 2014 Author 2. Administrators Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 I'll look into it again. Perhaps I just enjoy breaking out the windows disk a bit too much... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverDhill Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Well I can't stand the dozens up updates after the install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gec Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 my rough guess would be that Jabo reinstalls hes own compy at least twice a year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2. Administrators fruitbat Posted February 6, 2014 2. Administrators Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Twice, double that at least! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DD_Bongodriver Posted February 6, 2014 Report Share Posted February 6, 2014 Wow!!, must have a worse internet porn habit than me then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAim Posted February 7, 2014 Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 You people are aweful! TRy having sympathy for a Dog in trouble why don't you? Or at least refrain from laughing and finger pointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2. Administrators Jabo Posted February 7, 2014 Author 2. Administrators Report Share Posted February 7, 2014 Who's in trouble? Incidentally I restore the computer 2.6422568 times s year - ish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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