Need serious help quick =(

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yimmydatulip

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I own a Dell 1420 poweredge server and a few weeks ago had a hard drive issue. Apparantly there are 2 hard drives in the server and 1 of them took a long dirt nap, so we needed another one...well we recieved the new hard drive today and I called dell to have them walk me through installation....we had trouble at first because the faulty hard drive was left in the computer and we accidently swapped the good one out instead of the bad one....well anywho we ended up getting the correct pieces in place and the guy from dell told me to hit control 'a' to go into some sort of setup mode for the hard drive....he then told me to initialize the new hard drive...so I made sure I was initializing the right one (we only had 2 in there and I am 100% sure I initialzed port 0 which contained my new hard drive)...and the next thing I knew my old hard drive...the one that did work...was completly wiped out, taking all of my business information with it (along with any ability to even complete future work as it contains all the software needed to do my job). I don't know how this happend...like I said, I am 100% sure I initialized the correct port, but whatever the reason is, I can no longer even start up my computer as all of the information is gone...Am I completely screwed or is there anything I can do?? Is this gonna cost me more then a couple thousand?? Any information you guys can provide me with would be very helpful as I am jobless until I can fix this =(
And in case anyone was wondering, we have nothing backed up =( Please help me!!
 
well, how it happend does not matter no more... Fist!! do not use that hdd any more take it out of the system, do not try to install anything on it, do not copy any data what so ever! DON'T USE IT! or you risk to never recover your data EVER!. I recomend to take the hdd to a data recovery company. If you did'n copy anything on your hdd after it was wiped, you have a good chance to recover your data. The bad thing is that it might be quite expensive.
 
lol computers are really very simple. i wouldnt let dell install my stuff just because i like to know where it is , how its installed, etc..

i setup 3 hard drives two of them in a raid array. i would hate to not know how its setup.

my advice: play with it. thats how i learned to fix computers. the stuff is tougher to break than you think.. but still be careful with it. touch the computer case a lot to ground yourself and dont wear socks and walk on a rug. basically test test test! if you know how the computer works inside, then you should be able to fix it pretty easily.

sometimes they're weird: for instance my raid 0 array will work when the two hard drives are plugged into two of the sata ports, but not if i unplug one of them and plug it into another port. just keep plugging and unplugging turning it on and off. one try is bound to make it work lol
 
fade2green514 said:
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my advice: play with it. thats how i learned to fix computers. the stuff is tougher to break than you think.. but still be careful with it. touch the computer case a lot to ground yourself and dont wear socks and walk on a rug. basically test test test! if you know how the computer works inside, then you should be able to fix it pretty easily.
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How does this relate to him getting his data back?

lul
 
Tuffie said:
How does this relate to him getting his data back?

lul
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the data is still there, he just needs to get it working right with his motherboard. once he does that it should be back to normal.

i run a raid 0 array on my computer, and i have the two hard drive aligned in the array plugged into 2 specific sata ports. if i unplug one and plug it into another free port my computer won't boot, its just the way raid controllers work. they search for the hard drive where it was not where it is.
 
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