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Computer Troubles!

Gotta love 'em. I woke up this morning to see that my primary (Windows 7) computer had rebooted because of system updates. Ok, no big deal, happens all the time. This time? It doesn't see my RAID, just the two individual drives that can't be accessed. Annoyed, I went to tech support (Google) and found out that Microsoft pushed a Promise driver to my computer... for my Intel ICH10R RAID. *sigh* There were several suggested fixes, none of which worked for me. I wound up needing to install new Intel drivers, then reboot and rebuild my RAID. Now I'm about halfway through the lengthy process of copying my backup from the server back over to the drive. All 390 GB worth. If you're wondering, it's almost 2pm here, and I've been copying this stuff since 9am... on gigabit ethernet, no less. I'm definitely glad we upgraded to a gigabit switch, this would have been eternal on 10/100 ethernet. This moment of geek brought to you by the letters M and I, and the number 2. Backups. Never forget your backups.