ANOTHER failing hard drive?!!!!

[GibsonSGKing]

Hope you can remember

Ok, there's two lol

Comodo backup - Free
Acronis - Not so free

 

[Kage]

Thanks
Must be more choice than that though

 

[Celegorm]

I've always heard good things about clonezilla.

Clonezilla - About

Oh, if any of your drives are made by seagate, their disk utility has a cloner built in and it's free as well. I've used it before and had good success with it. It's built off of Acronis

 

[Kage]

Ah ha, thanks, that seems like a good one to me
Afraid I'm using Western Digital's, otherwise their own software would have been good

 

[GibsonSGKing]

Thanks
Must be more choice than that though

Oh, there definitely are, it's just that those are the ones I have experience with.

 

[berry120]

From what you've said a dodgy raid controller sounds like the most likely here rather than the drives themselves. WD drives have been very good for me personally and pretty much everyone else I know, that's too many to fail for it to be the drives unless you're really, really unlucky!

Haven't used it in a while but I seem to remember driveimage xml working for me.

 

[J03]

Could a dodgy raid control cause a physical fault with the disk though?

 

[Kage]

Yeah, because the controller is what copies all the data to the drive, and replicates the data onto the other drive.
It's not exactly a physical fault by the looks of it. But the controller is causing the fault.

Its probably the reason why both drives corrupted, because one drive generated a fault, which caused a computer crash. The system then re-built itself over the course of 2 hours, copying data from one drive to the other as it does, verifying data. Result? 2 corrupted drives.

I'm yet to install Windows 7 again, but I probably will tomorrow

 

[lhuser]

Hence what I originally said (Possible controller issue). To rule it out, try to see if you can obtain a separate HDD controller.

 

[berry120]

Yeah, because the controller is what copies all the data to the drive, and replicates the data onto the other drive.
It's not exactly a physical fault by the looks of it. But the controller is causing the fault

Yup, exactly. Take a look at the SMART status which might give a better indicator of the actual physical state (though I'm not sure if this would show up bad on SMART or not.)