Drive in a Raid 0 Volume is Failing!

Hi guys,

I ran 'chk disk' scan earlier this evening & it detected & rebuilt 2 bad sectors.

Upon reboot I received the following message, "Drive in a Raid 0 Volume is Failing. Try to backup data immediatley"

Im not sure how to tackle this head on so Ive been through google trying to get some pointers but without success.

Do I need to back up everything on the pc which amounts to 295GB or can I be more selective.

Im mostly concerned about the music production software & the music files I have written from them which I dont want to lose.

Can I just back up these files or is it necessary to back up more?

Secondly, with the XP back up facility I read that you can not make a back up cdr disc with it, so can you reccomend any freeware programs that would let me do this?

Also, would it be wise to burn the software & music files to disc before I try to back up Raid (in case it dosnt work) or is this likely to cause more problems?

I have a Dell Dimension 9150 using windows xp home edition if that helps.

Since receiving the warning message I havnt taken any action until I know what Im doing, Im using my mac laptop at the moment as Im unsure how to proceed with the issue on my dell pc.

Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance

 

Do you have a hard drive large enough for the whole RAID to be copied to? If you do, I would try XXClone http://majorgeeks.com/XXCLONE_d5534.html (I don't think it works with Vista) or Acronis(sp) is supposed to be very good, I have not tried it.

These let you clone the entire drive to another one. You can then replace the failing drive, rebuild your RAID and clone the backup drive to the new RAID drives.

If that is not an option, backup anything you want to keep as quickly as possible! If one of those drives dies, your info is gone! :cry

Good luck! And you are doing the right thing staying off that computer as much as possible. All hard drives eventually will fail. Your's has warned you it is failing!

 

Thanks Fred for such a quick response, no I wont be able to back up all 295 GB so ill start burning to disc the real important stuff right away! Many thanks again you chaps are 'top boys', not the first time you have saved my a*s, Im very grateful! :cool

 

I enjoy helping when I can. In return, I expect to see you posting in the lounge or hot topic areas of the forum. We do a little more than just 'puters here! :-D

 

i have been encountering this same problem with my sony on vista i took it in to a computer repair shop and it disapeared but now it has returned they changed somthing in the programing so any sugestions on how to deal with this?