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whiwo
Two weeks ago, I purchased two WD Black Caviar 1TB drives after the third
(count them) Maxtor external drive gave out on me within a 1 1/2 year period;
this time wiping out all of my work, music, pictures, documents, etc. I
managed to regain 2/3 of it back by using a restoration software I purchased.
I moved the restored files onto one of the newly purchased drives that I had
setup using Raid 1 (Mirroring). For whatever reason, it did not work. Busy,
I thought nothing of it and was just going to use my backup software to make
copies of the first drive to the second on a daily basis. Then, earlier this
week I saw a "recommended update" from Microsoft for Raid. So I downloaded
it and installed it, then rebooted. When my computer came back up, my two
drives disappeared. No need to panic, I performed a system restore which
brought the drives back, but ALL of the files from disk one had disappeared.
Then I began to panic. I used me restoration software again, but this time
there was absolutely nothing to be extracted from the drive. Then for
whatever reason, I restored my computer back to the point when I had
downloaded the updates causing the drives to disappear again. Frustrated, I
went back again only to find that the drives would no longer appear.
Finally, I gave up and did a fresh install of Vista64. Still the drives did
not show up. After installing all of the updates and what not, I decided to
go into disk management and there they were as raw data waiting to be
formatted. Now, I don't know exactly what happened here, but the fact that
these two formatted 1TB discs were now raw leads me to believe that this was
not an error on my part, rather something to do with the Windows Raid update
I had installed on the computer.
If I seem relatively calm, it's because I've had a couple of days to get
over it. However, you better believe that some ears should have been burning
and the snowcaps melting in Redmond prior to writing this comment. At this
point, I have lost everything. Not only burned a multitude of times by
Maxtor (whom I will never purchase again) but by the very operating system
that I have until now been 100% faithful too. Microsoft, you are making it
very hard for me to justify my allegiance. With the upcoming release of
Windows 7 (which I've already tinkered with and enjoy oh so much better than
Vista) I am in process of ordering all new parts to build a new computer this
next week. Perhaps I should re-think that and bite the bullet and go for a
Mac. It can't be that much worse could it?
(count them) Maxtor external drive gave out on me within a 1 1/2 year period;
this time wiping out all of my work, music, pictures, documents, etc. I
managed to regain 2/3 of it back by using a restoration software I purchased.
I moved the restored files onto one of the newly purchased drives that I had
setup using Raid 1 (Mirroring). For whatever reason, it did not work. Busy,
I thought nothing of it and was just going to use my backup software to make
copies of the first drive to the second on a daily basis. Then, earlier this
week I saw a "recommended update" from Microsoft for Raid. So I downloaded
it and installed it, then rebooted. When my computer came back up, my two
drives disappeared. No need to panic, I performed a system restore which
brought the drives back, but ALL of the files from disk one had disappeared.
Then I began to panic. I used me restoration software again, but this time
there was absolutely nothing to be extracted from the drive. Then for
whatever reason, I restored my computer back to the point when I had
downloaded the updates causing the drives to disappear again. Frustrated, I
went back again only to find that the drives would no longer appear.
Finally, I gave up and did a fresh install of Vista64. Still the drives did
not show up. After installing all of the updates and what not, I decided to
go into disk management and there they were as raw data waiting to be
formatted. Now, I don't know exactly what happened here, but the fact that
these two formatted 1TB discs were now raw leads me to believe that this was
not an error on my part, rather something to do with the Windows Raid update
I had installed on the computer.
If I seem relatively calm, it's because I've had a couple of days to get
over it. However, you better believe that some ears should have been burning
and the snowcaps melting in Redmond prior to writing this comment. At this
point, I have lost everything. Not only burned a multitude of times by
Maxtor (whom I will never purchase again) but by the very operating system
that I have until now been 100% faithful too. Microsoft, you are making it
very hard for me to justify my allegiance. With the upcoming release of
Windows 7 (which I've already tinkered with and enjoy oh so much better than
Vista) I am in process of ordering all new parts to build a new computer this
next week. Perhaps I should re-think that and bite the bullet and go for a
Mac. It can't be that much worse could it?