Checkdisk and RAID a problem?

[masterk]

Hi all, got some corrupt files on a raid 5 volume, whenever the server tries to reboot it wants to run chkdsk to presumably try and fix them. It only seems to be these handful of files that are corrupted. A colleague thinks that chkdsk will corrupt the RAID volume. Im confident it wont as windows doesnt even know its using RAID. What do you think?

Cheers

 

[malman]

windows will only see the logical disk if its a hardware raid controller. Windows could see the physical disks if it was a software raid but even then chkdsk only works on the logical disk assigned a drive letter.

fix the logical corruption then retrieve the files from a good backup as I doubt chkdsk is going to generate anything sensible.

 

[Bleek]

I have to say I've had good results with a simple chkdsk in the past.