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Teliko
Ireland1044 Posts
This happened randomly one day as I was booting the computer. Now I get this every time it initially boots (1st image), and an icon on the taskbar reminding me after I log in (2nd, 3rd). Anyone able to explain better what it might be and how I could restore it? I never heard of the term 'raid volume' before, but while the first image seems to be displaying two 300gig harddrives, there's only one. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/JmIkG.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/54ava.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/GHOtC.jpg) | ||
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Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
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AwfulPlayer
249 Posts
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Rollin
Australia1552 Posts
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CharlieBrownsc
Canada598 Posts
On November 16 2011 11:30 Rollin wrote: He said he only has the one hdd though, and generally laptops don't have excess space for two 2.5" lumps inside the case... Yes they do Either A), ignore it, it's not going to cause you any harm, unless you find it annoying B) disable your "second" HDD in your bios | ||
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AwfulPlayer
249 Posts
On November 16 2011 11:30 Rollin wrote: generally laptops don't have excess space for two 2.5" lumps inside the case... sure they do. okay maybe not those tiny ones, but his one is an alienware wich are not really known for being small. he probly bought it preconfigured (as most are these days), advertised with a "300gb mirrored harddisk". and as in a raid1 two disks are displayed as one single drive for the os, he may never have noticed he actually had 2. however, with such an intel matrix (software) raid you cant actually set up a raid without having 2 physical disks attached. bios shows a degraded raid with one of those 2 disks failing. and even the windows driver tells him his raid is degraded. nothing else to do than to replace the faulty disk. | ||
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Teliko
Ireland1044 Posts
On November 16 2011 12:11 AwfulPlayer wrote: sure they do. okay maybe not those tiny ones, but his one is an alienware wich are not really known for being small. he probly bought it preconfigured (as most are these days), advertised with a "300gb mirrored harddisk". and as in a raid1 two disks are displayed as one single drive for the os, he may never have noticed he actually had 2. however, with such an intel matrix (software) raid you cant actually set up a raid without having 2 physical disks attached. bios shows a degraded raid with one of those 2 disks failing. and even the windows driver tells him his raid is degraded. nothing else to do than to replace the faulty disk. But if the main hdd is seemingly split in to two 150gig drives and one fails, would that not mean I'd have lost access to half the stuff on my computer? Obviously I've no way of knowing which stuff is on which drive if they're combined in to one raid, but this happened a few weeks ago, and nothing seems to be corrupted, and I'm using around 220gigs of the hdd. | ||
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
On November 16 2011 12:25 Teliko wrote: But if the main hdd is seemingly split in to two 150gig drives and one fails, would that not mean I'd have lost access to half the stuff on my computer? Obviously I've no way of knowing which stuff is on which drive if they're combined in to one raid, but this happened a few weeks ago, and nothing seems to be corrupted, and I'm using around 220gigs of the hdd. do you know what mirrored means? they're copies | ||
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DomiNater
United States527 Posts
Your comforter is really fluffy and is going to suffocate the shit out of that nice Alienware Laptop of yours. Seriously, you look comfy man, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was a contributing factor to one of your HDD's failing. <3 | ||
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Teliko
Ireland1044 Posts
On November 16 2011 12:41 Shikyo wrote: do you know what mirrored means? they're copies oic, I was under the impression he meant there were two smaller hdds connected as one in the raid, my bad. So it's literally just an entire backup drive of the original hdd? Or... was? On November 16 2011 12:53 DomiNater wrote: Hey man, not sure if you know this or not... but yeah.... You REALLY SHOULDN'T PUT YOUR LAPTOP ON YOUR BED! Your comforter is really fluffy and is going to suffocate the shit out of that nice Alienware Laptop of yours. Seriously, you look comfy man, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was a contributing factor to one of your HDD's failing. <3 Don't worry, bro. Laptop is resting on a bigass broken dvd player. Fans are clear. ♥ | ||
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DomiNater
United States527 Posts
You have to have 2 HDD's too. I know you don't think you do, but I'm pretty sure Dell wouldn't go through the trouble of adding a Raid Controller plus the Raid Software on your Win7/Vista installation if you had just 1 Hard drive. Maybe you're thinking that you only have 1 HDD because you've always only seen one physical drive when looking at "My Computer". That's what a Raid 1 is though. | ||
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Teliko
Ireland1044 Posts
On November 16 2011 13:06 DomiNater wrote: Right on man good to hear. But Yes Raid 1 is two HDD's completely identical. When you make a change, add a program, download porn, etc., all of that data is written to both HDD's real-time. You have to have 2 HDD's too. I know you don't think you do, but I'm pretty sure Dell wouldn't go through the trouble of adding a Raid Controller plus the Raid Software on your Win7/Vista installation if you had just 1 Hard drive. Blast it, my valuable collection of horse on azn bukkake backup! So should I actually get it replaced? It hasn't seemingly put me at a disadvantage as of yet, and don't really want to be paying a new one unless it's really necessary. | ||
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DomiNater
United States527 Posts
The only reason you're computer is still up and running is because you had a Raid 1 using 2 HDD's. You now only have 1. If the remaining HDD takes a shit you are screwed. I would definitely put it on your wish list to get one as soon as possible. Your comp will run fine with just 1 HDD though, like someone mentioned before, you'll just see those annoying errors about your Raid until you get it replaced. | ||
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Teliko
Ireland1044 Posts
On November 16 2011 13:20 DomiNater wrote: Well think about it this way. The only reason you're computer is still up and running is because you had a Raid 1 using 2 HDD's. You now only have 1. If the remaining HDD takes a shit you are screwed. I would definitely put it on your wish list to get one as soon as possible. Your comp will run fine with just 1 HDD though, like someone mentioned before, you'll just see those annoying errors about your Raid until you get it replaced. Icic. Guess I should probably get around to saving for one at some point then :/ Thanks for the help, bro. ♥ | ||
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
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