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Just thought this might be useful to someone else:
In the course of attempting to convert my single drive to RAID-1 (I had a "spare" drive hanging around) I managed to clobber the partition info in the MBR. This was using the nVidia BIOS RAID management (nForce3 mbrd) and yes I felt dumb but it is confusing: "Select Drive?"... "Delete Array?"... "Clear Data?"... "Delete Data?"... etc., etc. So... facing the prospect of hours of reinstall and restore from backup -- yes I had one -- I gave BootitNG (www.bootitng.com) a try just to see what it would make of the drive contents: sure enough, the Partition Management utility showed an empty drive *but* the Undelete button was not greyed out so I clicked on it and it scanned the drive and recovered the partition layout in a few seconds.... *RELIEF*:-) Oh, and yes, I did get the RAID-1 working but what a PITA it was -- note nVidia's docs give no clues about building a mirror from a single existing drive -- and rebuild in WinXP was excruciatingly slow: ~12GB/hour on SATA drives. -- Rgds, George Macdonald |
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George Macdonald wrote:
So... facing the prospect of hours of reinstall and restore from backup -- yes I had one -- I gave BootitNG (www.bootitng.com) a try just to see what it would make of the drive contents: sure enough, the Partition Management utility showed an empty drive *but* the Undelete button was not greyed out so I clicked on it and it scanned the drive and recovered the partition layout in a few seconds.... *RELIEF*:-) Yeah, I am a big fan of BootitNG too. I just upgraded one of my drives from 80GB to 300GB just yesterday, and I used to BING to copy the data over. Yousuf Khan |
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Yousuf Khan wrote:
: George Macdonald wrote: :: So... facing the prospect of hours of reinstall and restore from :: backup -- yes I had one -- I gave BootitNG (www.bootitng.com) a :: try just to see what it would make of the drive contents: sure :: enough, the Partition Management utility showed an empty drive :: *but* the Undelete button was not greyed out so I clicked on it :: and it scanned the drive and recovered the partition layout in a :: few seconds.... *RELIEF*:-) : : Yeah, I am a big fan of BootitNG too. I just upgraded one of my : drives from 80GB to 300GB just yesterday, and I used to BING to : copy the data over. : Been using this Terabyte program in all it's incarnations since 1998. There is simply NO other boot manager and/or backup proggie that even comes close to the quality of BING....period. I'm **still** laughing at all the clueless masses that insist on sticking with crapware from the likes of Symantec and so on. j. |
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On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 14:36:36 -0500, Yousuf Khan wrote:
George Macdonald wrote: So... facing the prospect of hours of reinstall and restore from backup -- yes I had one -- I gave BootitNG (www.bootitng.com) a try just to see what it would make of the drive contents: sure enough, the Partition Management utility showed an empty drive *but* the Undelete button was not greyed out so I clicked on it and it scanned the drive and recovered the partition layout in a few seconds.... *RELIEF*:-) Yeah, I am a big fan of BootitNG too. I just upgraded one of my drives from 80GB to 300GB just yesterday, and I used to BING to copy the data over. I've been using it since PowerQuest decided they wanted ~$900. for a partition manager which worked with Windows Server partitions... something I'm likely to need once in a blue moon... and I've no need for a "dynamic" file system. I wish they'd make their licensing easier though. -- Rgds, George Macdonald |
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