Any hope for recovery?

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My system was in the middle of a defrag operation when a power failure hit.
Now the drive is not shown in Windows Explorer and shows up in the Disk
Management console as totally free space.

This is a WinXP Pro system and the 'drive' is actually two 180GB HDDs in a
RAID 1 configuration using a FastTrak TX2000 controller.

Is they data that was on the drives toast or is there hope for recovery?

Thanks....
 
Bishoop said:
My system was in the middle of a defrag operation when a power failure hit.
Now the drive is not shown in Windows Explorer and shows up in the Disk
Management console as totally free space.

This is a WinXP Pro system and the 'drive' is actually two 180GB HDDs in a
RAID 1 configuration using a FastTrak TX2000 controller.

Is they data that was on the drives toast or is there hope for recovery?

Thanks....
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Hello,

Can't help with your present problem, alas. Still, I'd like to offer
some advice of the "preventative medicine" variety, if I may.

Namely, you need to buy an UPS (uninterruptible power supply), in order
to avoid future disasters of this nature. A UPS would've provided time
to cancel the "defrag operation," allowing you to close down Windows
gracefully, and then switch off the PC.

Personally, I've used an APC "Back-UPS LS" 700VA (410 Watts) unit, since
May of 2002, and have been very pleased with it.

APC - American Power Conversion <http://www.apc.com>

Good luck!


Cordially,
John Turco <[email protected]>
 
| Bishoop wrote:
| >
| > My system was in the middle of a defrag operation when a power failure
hit.
| > Now the drive is not shown in Windows Explorer and shows up in the Disk
| > Management console as totally free space.
| >
| > This is a WinXP Pro system and the 'drive' is actually two 180GB HDDs in
a
| > RAID 1 configuration using a FastTrak TX2000 controller.
| >
| > Is they data that was on the drives toast or is there hope for recovery?
| >
| > Thanks....
|
|
| Hello,
|
| Can't help with your present problem, alas. Still, I'd like to offer
| some advice of the "preventative medicine" variety, if I may.
|
| Namely, you need to buy an UPS (uninterruptible power supply), in order
| to avoid future disasters of this nature. A UPS would've provided time
| to cancel the "defrag operation," allowing you to close down Windows
| gracefully, and then switch off the PC.
|
| Personally, I've used an APC "Back-UPS LS" 700VA (410 Watts) unit, since
| May of 2002, and have been very pleased with it.
|
| APC - American Power Conversion <http://www.apc.com>
|
| Good luck!
|
|
| Cordially,
| John Turco <[email protected]>

Excellent suggestion. It has been on my 'to buy' list for sometime. It
just received a much higher priority.

BTW. I was able to recover every single file (at least I think I got them
all back out of 80GB+) using wonderful utilities called findpart and
findntfs.
 
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