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tomtheappraiser · 07-01-2009, 01:31 PM

I have a 3 - 1TB Raid 5 set up on a Gigabayte GA-E7AUM-DSA2H MOBO. The OS is on a a 250 Gig IDE HD that is not included in the RAID.
Last week on of my 1TB went out. I had a bunch of data on there that I need very badly and quick, so I formatted a 750 Gig HD (That was from an external HD) and stuck it in there. It started rebuilding Friday and had gotten up to 76% by Sunday, but it won't go past 76%. I had thought that having 3 disks all the same size was an "ideal" thing, not a rule. I had thought that if you had a smaller drive, all of the other drives would operate at that capacity, which was fine with me because I only had gotten about 600 gig on there when it went down.

Is there any way to save this data? Does it have to do with the 750 gig, or the fact that it was an external?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

07-01-2009, 01:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
tomtheappraiser Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Vista	Raid won't rebuild past 76% I have a 3 - 1TB Raid 5 set up on a Gigabayte GA-E7AUM-DSA2H MOBO. The OS is on a a 250 Gig IDE HD that is not included in the RAID. Last week on of my 1TB went out. I had a bunch of data on there that I need very badly and quick, so I formatted a 750 Gig HD (That was from an external HD) and stuck it in there. It started rebuilding Friday and had gotten up to 76% by Sunday, but it won't go past 76%. I had thought that having 3 disks all the same size was an "ideal" thing, not a rule. I had thought that if you had a smaller drive, all of the other drives would operate at that capacity, which was fine with me because I only had gotten about 600 gig on there when it went down. Is there any way to save this data? Does it have to do with the 750 gig, or the fact that it was an external? Any help would be greatly appreciated!