Raid Drives lost, This is bad.

[dreeves33]

I recently upgraded my OS on a server from Windows NT 4.0 Server to Windows 2000 Server however when i started to look at my fresh server i noticed my raid disk was changed to 6 individual disks and all the data is gone. This is bad, can i recover my data and restore the raid disk?

 

[Seaspray0]

If the raid was controlled by a hardware based raid controller, this should not have happened. Were you doing raid through software control?

 

[dreeves33]

i originally thought it was controlled by hardware but i think it was controlled by the OS, is this recoverable?

 

[Seaspray0]

It doesn't look good. Do you still have a backup of the OS with the raid intact? From my understanding, you can't break a software raid in 2000 without losing the data. If the raid was software based and has been broken into its seperate drives... well, you may need to restore a backup of the old OS to retrieve the data from the raid.

 

[dreeves33]

so what your saying if your system hd bombs at any time any data stored on a raid server would be toast?

 

[wcburton]

Look at R-Studio from

http://www.r-tt.com

I have not used the raid feature but what I have used works great.

 

[SteveTheGeek]

If your system hd bombs (and ideally it is mirrored as well) then restore it from backup to get at the data.
-Steve

 

[vesselescape]

Raid what? .....1, 2, 5, ????