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Supermercado
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Repeated head trauma can cause brain damage
« on: Mar 11, 2007, 12:06 AM »
Out of the blue tonight, I get a BSOD on my file server. And now when I try to start it up, I get the dreaded *click click click* as it tries to detect the hard drives and it finally says "Primary master failed, primary slave failed." Hopefully it's just one of them and hopefully, it's just the master. I've got a 60 gig drive in my gaming rig that's going basically unused so I guess that's going to be tomorrow's project. *sigh*
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« Reply #1 on: Mar 11, 2007, 09:10 AM »
Ouch!

Sorry to hear that.
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Supermercado
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« Reply #2 on: Mar 11, 2007, 10:03 AM »
The machine booted up a couple of times and seemed stable enough apart from a click every 5 or 6 seconds. I'm going to try to boot it up again and make an image of it to try to restore from. I'd meant to make an image of it lke this weekend, too, doh! If it is indeed the primary master that failed, I can reinstall Windows on it okay since there's nothing on there I can't lose, but I'd rather have an image and save some time. Curses.
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"I couldn't do that. Could you do that? Why can they do it? Who are those guys?"

Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me.
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Repeated head trauma can cause brain damage
« Reply #3 on: Mar 11, 2007, 10:57 AM »
No luck on the image. It was DOA this morning, nothing but the clicking. I just got the spare 60 gig from my gaming rig moved over as the master in my file server. Going to have to reinstall the damn OS and all the patches with it. When I get this done, I'm making a SP2 slipstreamed disc, an image of the new install, and a BartPE disc.
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"I couldn't do that. Could you do that? Why can they do it? Who are those guys?"

Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me.
KnacK
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« Reply #4 on: Mar 11, 2007, 11:29 AM »
and you havent done that yet?

I have a colelction of BartPE disks, I love em.

btw - try putting your hdd that failed in teh freezer for a few hours then boot it and see what happens.  Might also want to try putting it in the oven at its lowest temp for about 30 minutes.  If it's a bearing issue, it will usually help just long enough to get data off of it.
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Supermercado
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« Reply #5 on: Mar 11, 2007, 12:05 PM »
No, unfortunately, I hadn't done all that yet. Turns out I did have a DriveImage XML image of my server OS drive from a few weeks ago but no BartPE disc. So I ended up pulling the spare 60 gig I had out of my gaming rig and installing XP on it. I'm now making a BartPE disc with the DI XML plugin on it in the hope that I can restore off it once this builds and is burned. If not, well, I've got an install of XP here that I can just rebuild. That'll suck but there's not that much on the server OS drive, anyway.
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"I couldn't do that. Could you do that? Why can they do it? Who are those guys?"

Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me.
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