# IT Help Needed. **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 10, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-help-needed/192970 "2007-10-10T17:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Quik83Z](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/quik83z/32/6042_2.png) [@Quik83Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Quik83Z)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 6:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-help-needed/192970/9 "2007-10-11T06:31:52Z")
> [@So, I'm going through the Ultima UK site....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-im-going-through-the-ultima-uk-site/32944/17): > > Today our primary server decided to take a \*\*\*\*. The server housed two 80 gig SATA harddisk’s in a Raid 0. Unfortunatley, the weekly backup was also on the server and I did not have a chance to transfer it before this happened. There are alot of important files that I need to get off the server. My problem is, if I hook these back up and attempt to log into Windows, the directory service has become corrupt, and I can not to any type of restore of it. I NEED to get these files back. I already replaced the harddisk’s with two Western Digital 360 gig drives in a Raid 1 if this decides to happen again. > > Thanks in advance, > Sean You were not really specific about why the server took a \*\*\*\*. If you lost a hard drive, then you’re fucked. If the system board crapped out, you should be able to plug the drives into a different motherboard that supports RAID 0 and recover the data. RAID 0 should only be used in cases where extreme drive speed is needed (especially write speed) and the data is either expendable or backed-up religiously. RAID 0 offers you NO data protection whatsoever. In fact you don’t even have to lose a drive, if you lose a SECTOR you are fucked because of the way the data is striped across multiple drives. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-help-needed/192970)._