Raid error

[onesockshort]

Hello all, im a first time poster here. Today I booted up my computer and in my bios/startup both hard drives in my raid setup say error. The computer will boot into windows xp and then i get an error from the matrix storage manager saying one of the raid volumes failed a read/write and that I should backup. I have tried reseating my cables. I am trying to get a different set of sata cables to change them. My raid is striping, and unfortunantly I have information on those drives that I really would be in a bind if I lose it. If anyone has any ideas or knows how to maybe how to isolate the problem more. Windows runs and I can access all of my information, but I fear soon I will not be able to. I am posting from a different computer and am trying to locate a computer that can backup my drives. Any help will be much appreciated.

M Gilbert

 

[johnb35]

Either get an external drive or another internal drive and backup your data to it. It could be that you got hit by a power surge or something and it hit your drives. Raid 0 is not good for data backup, only read/write speed. If you still wanna run a raid 0 then check to see what raid to run so that you can have striped disks backedup to a mirrored set. I think its a raid 0+1? not sure...