RAID 0 Fails Issue

I was just sitting back at work playing Medival Total War 2 when my computer froze and made a weird noise. So I did a hard shut down and restarted my computer. I have my two Hard Drives set up in RAID 0 and when the intel matrix manager pops up before loading winodws it says one of the hard drives has and error. I am still able to load windows and I dont have system restore set up. i did make a backup a month ago through the restore manager that is built into vista so i will try that when I get home.

How do I figure out if its just files that got messed up or the hard drive failed and I have to RMA it? I used HD Pro to check for errors and didnt get any so I have no idea what the issue is. Any suggestions since I can still boot windows. I have run a chkdsk once and it said it delted some files but I am running it again right now to see what will happen.

 

Not sure what you mean by HD Pro. HD Tune? I have used HD Tune to find bad blocks when other things didn't find the problem.

Use Event Viewer and see if Vista records HD errors are happening.

 

When you bought your new drive did they give you a manufacture disk? Should be a diagnostics utility on it or go to the website.

I use UBCD to recover. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

 

Whats the exact error the Intel matrix giving you?

 

It said an error occured thats it lol.....
What I did was deleted the RAID, created a new one, reinstalled windows and ran was able to recover my back up I did in March so apart from a few updates things should be fine.

Also yes I meant HD tune sorry. I also did not get a disc when I bought the hard drive.

 

For what it's worth I was running RAID and developed some error symptoms too. Acronis would not run for example. I could never trace down just what was happening. I ended up going back to non raid setup. I like RAID if I have a third disk for backup and image. With just two disks in the laptop I no longer trusted it. I'm not a RAID bigot. I like RAID. But the experience made me a little gun shy.

Vista's backup is surprisingly good. If you need to access the backup to grab files in case restore fails (which happened to me) just use Winimage to open Vista's image file and grab what you need. It took me awhile to figure that out.

 

sweet, ill look into that

 

What stripe size were you using? And do you know if they were possibly overheating?