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Intel Rapid Storage Technology C: Drive Corruptiion
Hi all,
I am making the assumption that IRST is causing my C: Drive to become corrupted, this may prove to be false, but I believe it is a good point to start from. So, the facts:
System:
i5-2500K
Sapphire 6950
Corsair 8GB DDR3 1600
Asus P8Z68V-PRO
Xonar DX
(2) WD RE4 1 TB HDDs in RAID 0, off the RAID controller on the MB
(2) OCZ Vertex 30 GB SSDs. 1 is a spare, 1 is used to accelerate the HDDs using IRST, set up in windows
The effect:
Essentially windows will not boot. I am able to get into a repair mode where I can restore an image, attempt a repair, access command prompt, etc. I believe windows is still on the hard drives, and perhaps intact, but the boot manger is acting like my RAID is corrupted.
The cause(s):
The first time this happened, the computer lost power (Crappy UPS). I had the IRST configured for "Maximum Performance", which delays writes to the HDD, and instead caches them to the SSD until it gets a bunch of writes. It warned me that using that option may lead to system corruption... and it did. This was a couple months ago, maybe 2 or 3, which I "fixed" by reinstalling windows.
This second time, which I haven't fixed yet, occurred while I was playing Battlefield 3. The game locked up, and I was forced to hard reset. I can't remember the last time the system locked up that hard, so I don't think its a stability thing, unless a RAM stick suddenly went bad, and I don't overclock. When I powered the machine back up, windows would not boot. I loaded into the repair tool, and attempted a system repair. This succeeded in getting me to a Check Disk screen where the system proceeded to Delete/Overwrite/Repair/Recover, or otherwise modify nearly 400k files, according to the read-out.
The Goal:
I've learned to keep backups, and backups of backups, so I'm not concerned about loss of data from this. I generally work off of an external hard drive, so the only thing I ever lose when stuff like this happens is saved games, so Oh Well.
What I would like to find out here is if anyone has had a similar experience, and how they solved it. Were you able to recover that windows install? How? Did you update drivers? Did you give up IRST altogether?
I can try to upload logs, but I cannot get into windows, so a lot of things won't be available, and I'm not sure how I would transfer the information to another computer to post here. If there is some specific log you'd be interested in, let me know, and I'll try to get it.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Jason