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Answer» I would like to install RAID 1 on the wifes computer. The motherboard has no support for RAID. How can I set it up. She has had a *censored* of a time with pictures not comming up from CD's. I thought that this might work better for her. Keeping them on two hard drives. The computer is home built. Intel D945gcnl motherboard, Pentium dual core processor E2180, Western Digital 160 gig hard drive and a Pioneer DVR-215D make up the machine. This is all new to me. I am 57 years old and like working on this stuff. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time.Hope this helps...it's for Windows XP: How to Install Windows XP on a RAID ConfigurationI have been told that If the motherboard doesn't support RAID you have to get a controller card for RAID then hook up the hard drives to the card then do all the stuff in your post. Do you know is this is true before I spend the money on the card? Or is the guy at Micro Center just trying to sell me a card?you will need a card if your motherboard does not natively support RAID. im kind of confused as to why you wish to setup a RAID1 array, could you please go into greater detail?My wife likes to take pictures of the grand children, the dogs places we go and then she has been saving them to a CD. Well as of late she has tried to bring up some of the pictures and she can't. We tried bring them up on my old laptop and some came up and some didn't. So if we have them on a hard drives with RAID 1 She stands a better chance of not loosing her pictures. That is the only reason. I want to keep her from loosing any more pictures. Last time she almost cried. Thanks for your time. I will pick up the card and drives.If her images were backed up to a CD...I don't understand why they could not be retrieved...unless the images were saved in a format not supported by the operating system or image viewing software. My wife likes to take pictures of the grand children, the dogs places we go and then she has been saving them to a CD. Well as of late she has tried to bring up some of the pictures and she can't.What about you, do you EVER burn the photos to CD? If not, maybe you should learn the procedure, verify that it's working, then sit at the computer with your wife and go over the procedure. Writing a detailed, step-by-step procedure could be very helpful. Why aren't those photos that could not be retrieved from CD still on the hard drive? Were they deleted from the hard drive once your wife thought she had burned them to CD? Something else to take into consideration... RAID 1 is basically a waste of space... If you have two 60GB hard drives...you'll only have 60GB of space...not 120GB. Also...a RAID one confoguration simply mirrors the other drive. So, it'll cut back on your write speeds since all data has to be written twice.As for the pictures on CD, you might want to double-check that the CD was finalized. As for the RAID configuration, there are some software raid OPTIONS AVAILABLE that you can take a look at. I did a simple search on yahoo for windows software raid 1 and the first result gave me this page. I haven't read it, but it looks like a good bet. Also, check here. Software RAID isn't nearly as good as hardware raid, but it may be just enough for what you want to do if you don't have the money to spend on a raid controller (they're not too expensive).I picked up the card last NIGHT. The two drives should be here Monday. I will try to explain what has happened. My wife's old computer had ME for the OS. Her new computer has XP. The adaptec Easy CD creator from the ME is not compatible with XP OS. I found that out the hard way. I had to reinstall XP to make things work. Her old computer lost it's hard drive. So last night when I picked up the card I also picked up a hard drive and installed it on the old computer. Out of 4 CD I was only able to recover the pictures on one. They were drop and drag from tree like I showed her. One CD was created in Adaptec Easy CD creator,that one will not give up it's pictures. I have tried every thing that I know to do in and out of the program. The other two were created in a program that came with the Sony CD drive I installed some years ago. I couldn't install that program because it calls for an activation number. The disk said that it was the serial number of the drive. I took out the drive and no luck, can't find the number any place on the drive. The name of the program is B's Clip. I was always on her about backing up her pictures and that if we ever lost the drive in the computer she would lose her pictures. Well we lost the drive and still lost her pictures. I am trying to make sure that she wont lose any more of her pictures. Yes I know that RAID 1 will only give half of the disk space. I don't care. I have to protect her pictures. Also last night we picked up extra memory cards for her camera so she wont have to dump them. The pictures that she lost can't be replaced. They are of grand children, family events and stuff like that. I am now looking into software that will recover them. My son said that he might be able to bring them up with some software he has at work. I may have to send them to him and see what he can do. I realy need to get them back. Thank you all for your time. Quote Out of 4 CD I was only able to recover the pictures on one. what do you mean? were the CD's damaged? how does having a bad harddrive affect your ability to read a CD? Quote One CD was created in Adaptec Easy CD creator,that one will not give up it's pictures. you cannot read the CD? im wondering why you need a program to create a CD when winXP allows you to simply drag and drop items onto the CD without the use of third party software. also, its not a good idea to put all of your precious memories on a harddrive, harddrives fail. your best bet would be to save them onto a CD or to simply print them out and put them into an album.Thank you Homer for stating what I already know. I have taught my wife how to drop and drag files. I can't help if she didn't do it. She liked the other programs so she used them. She nor I knew that they wouldn't work. The problem is getting the pictures off of the CDS. As for Hard drives failing that is the reason for RAID. As for the CDs I will bet that she from now on will drop and drag. If I sound short I don't mean to. It seems to me that I am being told things that I all ready know and that isn't helpping. If you read the posts I have explained what happened and how I have tried to fix it. I have never had any problems till now working with CDs. I drop and drag all my CAD files to CDs. A lot of other stuff from work is all saved on CDs. I have never before had any problems getting stuff from a CD till now. What I need at this point is software that will recover the lost pictures. Do you know of any? Thank you all for your time and patience.Yes I know it is drag and drop not drop and drag. That is how upset this had gotten me.I've never used this software, but would this be something that may be of interest to you: CD Recovery Toolbox FreeThank you, I will give it a try. |
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