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RAID 5 Recovery

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123ski
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I am hoping someone else here knows much about Raid 5.  I have posted on some computer forums, but haven't heard anything back yet.

I was consistently having my Port 3 fail on my Raid 5 Array (4 1TB Hitachi Drives)
I called Asus and they told me to flash my BIOS because that was likely the problem.
I flashed the BIOS and it caused 2 of my drives (ports 3 and 4) to become "failed"
I uninstalled Intel Matrix Storage and Installed Intel Rapid Store.
Both "failed" drives now appear but show up as "missing"
They appear separately from the RAID, however with a slightly truncated serial number as "available non-raid" drives.

I would love to recover the data on these discs if possible. The last time I did a backup was in December, so I don't want to lose all of my data (photos, video, documents, etc) from January onward as it is valuable to me.

I feel like the discs were never failed, just a software problem, and I would like to get this data back!
May 30 2010 1:54PM
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Click_Here
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sorry, i dont speak nerd

May 30 2010 2:02PM
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Dr.NS
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its this "nerd" speak that plays a large part in you sitting on your couch and jerking it to your favourite pornos, playing your video games, and having a sick design on your skis you can show all your little friends.

backup solutions like RAID are incredibly influential towards things being created. people should really realize how hypocritical and retarded it is for them to attack technologies for being "nerdy" when really its them that benefits from the use of them.

May 30 2010 2:08PM
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Click_Here
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sounds like nerd talk to me
May 30 2010 2:11PM
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Ryno
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or we could just snicker at those naive "nerd" comments and ignore them...

Im no help to the OP though :P
May 30 2010 2:14PM
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Dr.NS
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this, along with your other thread postings, speaks more truly to your awe- inspiring lack of intelligence than I ever could in my own words.

and no retard, that's not a good thing.

https://www.newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/542002/
May 30 2010 3:57PM
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Microcosm
Posts: 4765 - Karma: 153
Being a nerd is great, in my humble opinion. Music playing throughout 3 floors of my entire house during parties, as opposed to a shitty ipod speaker? Got it. Hard drive crashes? Lemme just grab one of my backups and I'm good to go. Lost my phone? Don't need a Facebook group, I'll just get a new one and restore my backup in 5 minutes. Job? Sure hope so once I graduate..
But hey, who needs nerds?

Anyway, I'm not sure what to say about your RAID problem because I've only ever used a couple external hard drives and done it manually.
I thought the advantage of the RAID system was that all the drives mirrored each other, so if one failed you weren't out of luck? Well best of luck regardless, losing data sucks a lot. :(
May 30 2010 4:03PM
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304NordMan
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[IMG]themesformyspace.com/uploads/images/385049a3ee1455f0f.jpg[/IMG]...

... because your a meanie head who talks all smart and stuffff.

May 30 2010 4:09PM
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Guy.
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moral of the story: back up more often
May 30 2010 4:11PM
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feihlination
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one of the "nerdiest" dudes in my hs class (he was having a life besides computers, pretty chill guy but still knew a lot about computers once formatted his usb-stick. somehow he got a little sloppy and also formatted an unknown drive with 450 gbyte which was listed below. he didnt think about it and half a minute later, 400 gigsn of quality and handselected movies, music, pron maybe also school stuff was deleted. kinda hilarious, but he has never been the same guy afterwards. it broke his heart.

bottom line: back up more often
May 30 2010 4:17PM
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