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to: Sniper
from: Belly
date: 2004-08-19 14:11:00
subject: To RAID or not to RAID?

Re: To RAID or not to RAID?
  By: Sniper to Belly on Wed Aug 18 2004 03:50 pm

 > to the disk management in WinXP, one drive wasn't mounted, so, clicked
 > on it, and did a quick NTFS format on it. About that time I looked a bit
 > closer and saw the size of the drive... 120gig... not 80... I said OH
 > SHIT, tried to stop the format, which finished about the time I said Oh
 > shit... I tried every recovery utility/program I could find, and not one

One time I had a tech who was ghosting a customer's failing drive (still
functional, but failing) to a new one... You can guess what happened... He got
the souce and destination reversed. :(

Not a happy day. The fact that it was someone else's data made it worse.

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