Mint 7 destroyed my windows 7 RAID 0 disk

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I have raid 0 recently setup for my windows os drive. I thought I would try linux mint, booted the live cd and got booted to a terminal screen. Gave no reason as to why it didn't boot the GUI!!

I then rebooted my computer and found that my raid drive had been nuked. Not happy :/

How can I stop linux destroying my raid drive?
 
Hardware raid? Software raid? Windows raid?

A live CD shouldn't make any changes to the disk. Are you sure you just booted it up?
 
Don't use windows? Consider yourself saved from the microsoft's menace!

Live cd does nothing to you drives by default, other then attempt to mount them, which does not destroy any data. Probably wasn't a live cd.
 
It was the linux mint live cd, 100% sure.

The raid is setup using the bios options on my motherboard.

All I did was load the CD, it booted me to terminal, then when i restarted my raid drive was nuked :/
 
Well just tried "installer mode" and yet again it borks my RAID 0, the raid utility just says "offline member" for both my disks.

Good job I have my trusty macbook!
 
rsatd said:
Have a look at this, may help, but it is seems very odd why a live cd touches anything...
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oh great! this happens to me! Bloody live cd isn't supposed to change anything! Yet they released 9.04 like this!!! Never using ubuntu again thats for sure.

Gonna run back to arch linux and hope that isn't crippled by the same bug.

not happy...
 
Oxy said:
Good job I have my trusty macbook!
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Now I feel sorry for you...


Anyway, have a look for similar problem, it just strikes me as retarded as live cd... is live cd... By definition it does not touch your disks...
 
now downloading opensuse kde version, hopefully this will work. I just want a linux distro i can install without the faff associated with gentoo or arch, so that i can do my masters work on without getting distracted by steam friends, armed assault 2 or ventrilo :p

Not got much to ose now after my raid setup was nuked! may as well just keep trying distro's until one works! if opensuse doesnt work, what about chukra or fedora?
 
1) Nuke windows
2) Install Arch normally without Raid malarky
3) ...
4) Profit

Really, RAID 0 doesn't strike me as that useful
wiki said:
RAID 0 (striped disks) distributes data across several disks in a way that gives improved speed at any given instant. If one disk fails, however, all of the data on the array will be lost, as there is neither parity nor mirroring.
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1) Windows already nuked, thanks Ubuntu!

2) Need raid for my SSD drives.

3) Need windows for games.

4) Throw Mint 7 CD down the street.

5) Never use ubuntu/mint ever again

6) Download a proper version of linux

7) Profit
 
1) Surely the file allocation table may be recovered, and data is still on there.

2) What for, just put os on the SSD, and the data on conventional SATA drive, unless you operate on several gig a second? Pointless.

3) Meh, your call

4) Dumping rubbish ¬_¬

5) Good plan

6) Stick with Arch

7) Share half
 
RAID 0 SSD has significantly improved texture loading speed withint Armed Assault 2.

Gonna test opensuse or if that fails gonna re-install arch.
 
Not entirely convinced raid 0 has that much to do with it, but SSD will on its own. Anyway, I play games when I am uber uber bored. Anyway, have fun playing with it, hope you had backups ;)
 
Nasty bug but there are tips on how to recover from it in the bug thread.
The problems with the intel soft raid setup has been going on for far too long. It's a bit sad really.
 
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well tried opensuse and that was a total disaster! for some reason the screen was like all mushed together like I was watching 16:9 on a 4:3 screen, was unreadable. It also sort of screwed up my raid some more lol

Tried debian and all is working flawlessly! It doesn't detect my raid but I don't care as debian is installed an a normal hdd and i don't need access to my windows drive in linux.
 
You don't want linux to try and detect your RAID, it will only try to read it with dmraid, which is good at destroying fakeraid arrays.
 
Wow, great bug.

From what I understand it won't nuke your raid. Reconfiguring it in the BIOS or performing a CMOS wipe can fix it. I would hope your data remains untouched when booting a LiveCD.
 
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