Dear All:
Haven't posted on here in a while, everything had been running smoothly. Had a bit of bad luck and I've had a server hardware crash. I do have an SBS2008 backup so should be able to recover. I purchased new hardware and built a new server but prob with mb will have to exchange for new one (long story). I've taken one of my older machines that is powerful enough to run SBS2008, at least for the short term, and configured it with 4 new 500gb disks (same size as original server) and set up Raid 5 exactly the way I had it on old server. I booted from the SBS2008 install disk, then chose "repair" and hooked up the external drive usb connected back up to the machine, and run through the recover procedure, but have been getting the classic "THE DISK THAT IS SET AS ACTIVE IN BIOS IS TOO SMALL TO RECOVER THE ORIGINAL SYSTEM DISK. REPLACE THE DISK WITH A LARGER ONE AND RETRY THE RESTORE OPERATION (0x80042407). Since the RAID 5 is showing setup properly on the boot, and all 4 disks show in the RAID config utility, and the bios of the computer, my assumption was an "inf" file was missing for the raid array, which apparently the recover back up can't "see". I've tried the original mb disk, then newer "inf" files from the mb manufacturer's web site, and tried just about every "inf" file I could, no luck. I went in to bios and set the raid 5 array as the first boot option, no difference.
Any one have a suggestion on how I can recover my world?
Thanks in advance,
Scott
Haven't posted on here in a while, everything had been running smoothly. Had a bit of bad luck and I've had a server hardware crash. I do have an SBS2008 backup so should be able to recover. I purchased new hardware and built a new server but prob with mb will have to exchange for new one (long story). I've taken one of my older machines that is powerful enough to run SBS2008, at least for the short term, and configured it with 4 new 500gb disks (same size as original server) and set up Raid 5 exactly the way I had it on old server. I booted from the SBS2008 install disk, then chose "repair" and hooked up the external drive usb connected back up to the machine, and run through the recover procedure, but have been getting the classic "THE DISK THAT IS SET AS ACTIVE IN BIOS IS TOO SMALL TO RECOVER THE ORIGINAL SYSTEM DISK. REPLACE THE DISK WITH A LARGER ONE AND RETRY THE RESTORE OPERATION (0x80042407). Since the RAID 5 is showing setup properly on the boot, and all 4 disks show in the RAID config utility, and the bios of the computer, my assumption was an "inf" file was missing for the raid array, which apparently the recover back up can't "see". I've tried the original mb disk, then newer "inf" files from the mb manufacturer's web site, and tried just about every "inf" file I could, no luck. I went in to bios and set the raid 5 array as the first boot option, no difference.
Any one have a suggestion on how I can recover my world?
Thanks in advance,
Scott