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MikeSty · 08-18-2005, 09:26 AM

ATM I'm so incredibly pissed off at myself for being such an idiot. I was building a new comp for my family (which I'm plenty capable of doing), but the POS kept crashing. I eventually found out via memtestx86 that the RAM was bad. I returned it, and now I'm using some shitty RAM I dug up.

Initially I had installed XP on the mirroring SATA RAID i built. The install had issues (due to the flaky RAM), so I decided to install again. Bad, bad idea. I had an IDE HDD from the old family comp which has all of their shit on it.

Being the stubborn fool I am, I should have disconnected that IDE drive (like I did the first time around), JUST to make sure I didn't fuck up. I just left it connected, and I paid the price - I installed XP on that drive, wiping the partition and all.

However, I feel that there may be a little luck left. Knowing how shitty windows utilities are, maybe data recovery will be able to pick out what's left. If not, then I'll just have to kill myself. Plain and simple.

It was funny how the last few days I've been looking around on the comp for the other HDD. I tried everything, and it just now clicked that I was ON the IDE drive .... the RAID array was just sitting there, useless. So all of the hours I spent installing drivers, little firefox plugins, all sorts of nice stuff to make it nice for my family is down the drain for a second fucking time.

Any advise, hell, sympathy, would be appreciated. I think I'm going to go outside and throw some fastballs until my shoulder comes out of my socket.

08-18-2005, 09:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
MikeSty The Computer Kid :D Location: 127.0.0.1	Pathetic disk recovery or seppuku ATM I'm so incredibly pissed off at myself for being such an idiot. I was building a new comp for my family (which I'm plenty capable of doing), but the POS kept crashing. I eventually found out via memtestx86 that the RAM was bad. I returned it, and now I'm using some shitty RAM I dug up. Initially I had installed XP on the mirroring SATA RAID i built. The install had issues (due to the flaky RAM), so I decided to install again. Bad, bad idea. I had an IDE HDD from the old family comp which has all of their shit on it. Being the stubborn fool I am, I should have disconnected that IDE drive (like I did the first time around), JUST to make sure I didn't fuck up. I just left it connected, and I paid the price - I installed XP on that drive, wiping the partition and all. However, I feel that there may be a little luck left. Knowing how shitty windows utilities are, maybe data recovery will be able to pick out what's left. If not, then I'll just have to kill myself. Plain and simple. It was funny how the last few days I've been looking around on the comp for the other HDD. I tried everything, and it just now clicked that I was ON the IDE drive .... the RAID array was just sitting there, useless. So all of the hours I spent installing drivers, little firefox plugins, all sorts of nice stuff to make it nice for my family is down the drain for a second fucking time. Any advise, hell, sympathy, would be appreciated. I think I'm going to go outside and throw some fastballs until my shoulder comes out of my socket.