Error Message: RAID 0 drive is failing back up immediately...Please help!

I have a fairly new computer (May 2009) and recently when I have been logging onto the computer I have been getting a message saying that RAID 0 drive is failing, back up immediately. I then click on the icon that is showing me this message and it goes into the Intel matrix console. Upon further investigation, i have found that it is specifically Hard drive 2, array member (Model: ST3320813AS, Firmware: HP22 that states the status of it as error occurred. I then went into the control panel to back up the computer to my external hard drive. But it won't let me because it says that the external hard drive is not formatted for NTSC. So instead I begin backup up the computer to DVDs. On DVD four, each disc errors, so I quit the backup. Now, I decide at least I can back up my docs, so I get that done successfully to my external hard drive. I then decided to try the full computer backup again, this time it errors on disc 1. I figure the problem is getting worse, so I shut down the computer while I research the problem on my other computer. What should I do next? Is there any way to back up this data any other way? What kinds of things will I lose if I don't get the rest of the computer backed up? How do I fix this problem?

Thanks in advance for all your help!
Leslie

Hi,

First, could you not just change the format of your external drive (Re-format) to NTSC & then use that to complete a full back-up?

You could use something like Norton Ghost or O&O software both of these run from cd to back-up/ create an image of the drive.

http://uk.norton.com/ghost

http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/products/oodiskimage/index.html

I am not sure if both will bypass the error segments of the drive or if the drive is too damaged already to create an image but it's worth a go before one of them fails completely!

After all once the drive does fail the information in a striped RAID set would be costly to recover (Specialist company).

Thanks for the suggestions. About the external hard drive that I already have. I can't reformat it because it is full of files that are my most important files. I will check into the norton ghost backup and the other. Then I'll get back to you.

Thanks!