CALLING ALL I.T. SPECIALISTS - HELP NEEDED

[Breaker]

It is clicking though so unlikely to be the connector.

Re itunes issue - if all your music is on an iPod, you can upload iTunes again from your iPod itself.

You need other software to do that mind as iTunes wont copy from an iPod. :wink:

Here is one of many workarounds though: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/ontherun/how-to-copy-music-from-your-ipod-to-your-itunes-library-5615

 

[peddy]

I had a major disaster with RAID-1 though, so never use it again (RAID 5 only now for me). The primary RAID-1 disk failed and I found out that you can ONLY swap the disk out (and replicate from the mirror disk) if you don't power the machine off.

Once powered off and the faulty disk replaced, the replication of the other disk does NOT take place and I had to buy a special program to be able to recover the data from the mirrored disk. Lesson learned from that.

who told you that?? hope you didn't pay much for the software because i don't think you really needed it.

 

[pvr]

Dynamic disk does not have a Master Boot record, so you can not boot of the mirrored disk. You need to be able to boot of another device and try to create a boot.ini file to be able to get to the disk.

If the server does not have a floppy, you can not create a boot floppy either - so buying a piece of recovery software for $50 or so is money well spent.

 

[EdButler]

Its a shame im a little late on this, but it sounds like it could easily be a power shortage of some kind. Ive also had an external enclosure disk making nasty clicks; it was not receiving enough power and resetting itself into 'park' mode over again.

Good luck either way

 

[easty027]

Its a shame im a little late on this, but it sounds like it could easily be a power shortage of some kind. Ive also had an external enclosure disk making nasty clicks; it was not receiving enough power and resetting itself into 'park' mode over again.

Good luck either way

My drive fell onto the floor, which made me think it was physical damage rather than a power shortage of some kind. As mentioned previously, there are a lot of IT dudes in here ?

Maybe we should have a poll of job types ? i would do it if i knew how, guess its back to you IT dudes again ?

 

[mmm-five]

Whenever I have a drive I no longer need, I take it apart (mainly for the super-strong magnets for my neice) and then strip the platters out to use as catapult/air rifle targets.

 

[peddy]

Dynamic disk does not have a Master Boot record, so you can not boot of the mirrored disk. You need to be able to boot of another device and try to create a boot.ini file to be able to get to the disk.

If the server does not have a floppy, you can not create a boot floppy either - so buying a piece of recovery software for $50 or so is money well spent.

IIRC I think you can configure it so that the mirrored disk also has the MBR.

I don't see why you moved over to RAID-5? http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt

 

[mindware]

As a nerd I'd love to have some of the police IT forensics stuff!

It's not all that interesting actually! The industry standered is EnCase - there's copies floating around the web of the older (and crapper) v4. The newer v6 is better, but you probebly wont find a bent copy of that...

There's also rivals like X-Ways, FTK etc. For mobile forensics, have a look at XRY/XACT. Licences for these don't come cheap!!

@OP...Good luck! As long as you didnt have a head-crash or anything too drastic on the platters you should have good chances of it being recovered from a proper lab

 

[lacroupade]

I had a major disaster with RAID-1 though, so never use it again (RAID 5 only now for me). The primary RAID-1 disk failed and I found out that you can ONLY swap the disk out (and replicate from the mirror disk) if you don't power the machine off.

Once powered off and the faulty disk replaced, the replication of the other disk does NOT take place and I had to buy a special program to be able to recover the data from the mirrored disk. Lesson learned from that.

I once had to pay a client bill for £12000 for data recovery because of a hardware engineer working for me who did exactly that...