Lost 160GB of data!

[George L]

not my forum so not my decision

[Shining Arcanine]

at the time though i was performing a 5million post forum vB upgrade and was rebuilding the postindex when the thunderstorm came sigh. Now running rebuild on another pc 4 days and 32million row postindex table and still going

Why not just drop the postindex and word tables and turn on fulltext searching?

[Zachery]

Ah.

[George L]

I think its because george has so much of it

lol.. that could be the case hehe

as to storage, file server is also TV/PVR schedule weeks worth of my fav tv programs and movies to record for viewing when i have time hehe

at the time though i was performing a 5million post forum vB upgrade and was rebuilding the postindex when the thunderstorm came sigh. Now running rebuild on another pc 4 days and 32million row postindex table and still going

Just wondering George, why not just reinstall to a new directory or use ASR?

one of the disks reported damaged by winxp, so will have to test them all first before reinstalling winxp..

[Erwin]

It's happened to me twice last year. I end up just backing up important files by burning them onto CDs just in case.

[Pugzly]

Buy another 80GB drive and go Raid 5.

He already has enough for RAID 5 (you only need three).....

That would suck to lose data like that..... at least mine was taken from me, and I'll hopefully get it back....

[Shining Arcanine]

What do you need 0.72TB of storage for?

George said that they are mirrored so it is 0.36TB of storage.

[Zachery]

A few hours ago there was a thunderstorm, so decided to switch off all my pcs which are already protected by APC UPS.

Later turn the pcs back on and my file server greets me with corrupted OS message! So decide to format and reinstall but get WinXP unable to format or access disk - could be damaged message!

Gonna have to spend a few days taking apart the file server to test each hard drive using the diagnostic tools

4x 80GB WD 800JB
2x 200GB WD 2000JB

darn it

Just wondering George, why not just reinstall to a new directory or use ASR?

[Scott MacVicar]

Actually i have a question now.

What do you need 0.72TB of storage for?

My fileserver runs a 160gb drive with 8mb cache, though I do plan to add another for storing media alone.

[Dean C]

My condolences George

[Scott MacVicar]

I think its because george has so much of it

[Wayne Luke]

You seem to have the roughest time with computer hardware.

[Jake Bunce]

I keep my data duplicated on two computers.

[tgillespie]

Buy another 80GB drive and go Raid 5.

[JPT62089]

A few hours ago there was a thunderstorm, so decided to switch off all my pcs which are already protected by APC UPS.

Later turn the pcs back on and my file server greets me with corrupted OS message! So decide to format and reinstall but get WinXP unable to format or access disk - could be damaged message!

Gonna have to spend a few days taking apart the file server to test each hard drive using the diagnostic tools

4x 80GB WD 800JB
2x 200GB WD 2000JB

darn it

OUCH >_< thats gotta such big time! hope you get everything fixed! and hopefully recover the lost files!