Author Topic: Hard drive problems with windows xp sp3 (Read 5670 times)

jonl326 · « **on:** March 23, 2009, 07:45:17 PM »

I have a 120 gig seagate eide shows up on boot up and bios but not in windows my computer or device manager anyone have any ideas

JJ 3000 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 23, 2009, 07:51:26 PM »

been to disk management yet?

Is it a new hard drive? If so It should have came with a CD, run it.

jonl326 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 23, 2009, 07:55:03 PM »

No have not been to disk management yet have not ever used it and no not new it is used

JJ 3000 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 23, 2009, 08:02:33 PM »

Click start then Run and type in: diskmgmt.msc and press enter.

Do you see the drive there?

jonl326 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 23, 2009, 08:06:33 PM »

Yes it is there
says Not Initialized

Broni · « **Reply #5 on:** March 23, 2009, 10:39:31 PM »

Is it a new drive?
If so, did you format it?

jonl326 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:02:39 PM »

I found it and got it running now I'm trying to figure out how to mirror hard drives thanks everyone for the help

Broni · « **Reply #7 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:27:22 PM »

Good

What do you mean by "mirror"?

jonl326 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:33:57 PM »

where two hard drives with the same identical files on each hard drive If one dies you can run off of the other hard drive If a bad you have a bad sector on 1 drive the other drive takes up the slack

Blade285 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:39:49 PM »

What you are talking about is RAID 1
Is it a SATA drive? apart from the fact that it's not working, afaik RAID only works on SATA drives

jonl326 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:42:28 PM »

Ok I did not know it had to be sata I have a Maxtor eide raid card with 4 160 gig wd hadrd drives on it

Broni · « **Reply #11 on:** March 24, 2009, 05:09:34 PM »

New hard drive should have come with cloning program. If not, you can download it from HD manufacturer site.

jonl326 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 24, 2009, 05:10:42 PM »

Ok thanks Ill try that

Broni · « **Reply #13 on:** March 24, 2009, 05:22:39 PM »

You're welcome

JJ 3000 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 24, 2009, 08:03:18 PM »

Quote from: Blade285 on March 24, 2009, 04:39:49 PM

afaik RAID only works on SATA drives

RAID was invented long before SATA.

Jon, That RAID card should have came with a CD. Have you ran it?

Are you saying that you had three hard drives on your RAID card and added the 120 gig seagate after you had your array set up? Or did you just hook up four drives and the 120 gig seagate was the only one not recognized by your operating system?

Are you trying to Run RAID1? I would suggest using a RAID 5 array.

jonl326 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 24, 2009, 09:07:38 PM »

JJ 3000 I hooked up 4 120 gig seagates on the raid card and 1 could not be found whats the difference from raid 1 and and raid 5

JJ 3000 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 24, 2009, 09:30:25 PM »

Check this out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

Basically RAID5 is more reliable and provides more redundancy. RAID 5 distibutes data and parity info evenly across all of your drives. RAID 5 is the fastest and the most common implementation of RAID and it requires at least three drives. However a RAID 5 array will use about one drives Worth of space for parity (error correction). So if you have four 120 gig drives the effective storage capacity of your array will be about 360 gigs. But, if one of your drives fail, all of your data will still be intact.

RAID 1 mirroring will use the drive space differently. With a mirrored array you will only be able to use about 240 gigs of storage space. Plus mirroring is SLOW.

Quote from: jonl326 on March 24, 2009, 09:07:38 PM

JJ 3000 I hooked up 4 120 gig seagates on the raid card and 1 could not be found whats the difference from raid 1 and and raid 5

A better question is: Should I set up a hardware or a software RAID configuration?

Hardware RAID is a lot more reliable. (I don't have too much experience with software RAID)

What are you trying to accomplish with your array?

JJ 3000 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 24, 2009, 09:35:48 PM »

Did your card come with a CD?

jonl326 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 24, 2009, 11:28:50 PM »

All I am trying to do is make sure that if one fails all is not lost I am trying to learn autocad and I wont to make sure I don't loose anything My last system only had 1 hard drive and it died all was lost don't wont to go through that again

JJ 3000 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 24, 2009, 11:57:10 PM »

Well then...

Quote from: JJ 3000 on March 24, 2009, 09:35:48 PM

Did your card come with a CD?

Can you post a screen shot of your My Computer and Disk Management?

If you went to the trouble and expense to buy a RAID card, you should at least try to set up a RAID 5 array.

If you need help, post back.

Do you have the CD?

JJ 3000 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 25, 2009, 12:01:34 AM »

Quote from: jonl326 on March 24, 2009, 11:28:50 PM

All I am trying to do is make sure that if one fails all is not lost I am trying to learn autocad and I wont to make sure I don't loose anything My last system only had 1 hard drive and it died all was lost don't wont to go through that again

If you don't want to lose your data, just make sure that you use good back ups. A combination of using a flash drive or Cd's along with online storage will insure that you can recover your data.

jonl326 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 28, 2009, 04:06:10 PM »

No my card didnt come with a cd bought it used and I had the hard drives running in raid 1 but when I rebooted it they were back in standard set up in windows cant figure it out set up in hardware not in software

JJ 3000 · « **Reply #22 on:** April 03, 2009, 01:08:58 AM »

What is the brand and model of your RAID card?

jonl326 · « **Reply #23 on:** April 04, 2009, 02:01:11 PM »

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