Disk Configurations for RAID 5

[kleslie11]

HELP....Let's start by saying that. This morning I started rebuilding my server...and I made a RDISK...which I thought saved NT's disk striping....<br>
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The horror story....when I finished with a clean install...I went to Disk Manager...and slapped in the R-disk and no disk configuration info was found....<br>
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My question....I did a complete backup on the disk that had the original version of server...will this contain the RAID info...????<br>
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PLEASE HELP...<br>
Again thanks in advance...<br>
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Also, I want to tell all out there that this is a great information place...and kudos to all that answered my other posting....as simples as it was.....you all REALLY helped.

 

[Zelandakh]

????????<br>
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Let's start by saying that!<br>
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RAID 5 configuration and disk striping are not the same thing. You cannot do either on the boot partition of NT server so a clean install would not touch those partitions. Therefore the data and the volumes they sit on should still be there unless you deleted the partitions and repartitioned them.<br>
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Check the disks are mounted and see if the data is still on them. When you did a complete back up, what did you back up? boot partition, system partition, data or just rdisk info? Using what software?

 

[Lizardking]

if your using nt's built in fault tolerance I think the procedure is to restore NT, and manually recreate the stripe or raid, the perform your restore.