HDD Boot Failure Raid 1 with PERC H200A (LCI SAS 2008-IR) Controlller

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Proskier871

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I currently have a Older Server (Microsoft Server 2008) with a LSI SAS 2008-IR controller. The Problem that I have is the Primary Drive (Raid 1 ) boot sector has become corrupted and now the system will not boot after a power outage (the system runs 24/7/365 with Battery Backup UPS. We lost power for a extended time and after unit will only boot to a "C" Prompt (virtual drive). Now during the Boot Attempt is states that"Integrated RAID exception detected Volume (HDl: 079) is in a state of Resyncing. When entering the SAS bios configuration it states the Drive is rebuilding. Drive 0 is set to the primary and Drive 1 is secondary, Drive ) is Rebuilding. This is a PERC H200A, MPT Firmware 7.15.08.00-IR, NVDATA Version 07.00.00.19. What I need to know is if the Boot Sector was corrupted and the Drive is Rebuilding is it Rebuilding the Mirror Drive with the Corrupted Drive or is the Corrupted Drive Rebuilding from the Good Raid Drive? This is set to a RAID 1 configuration. in the LSI Config Utility it states that the STATUS is Degraded and Task 3% Syncd. Any information is greatly appreciated being this is the first time in Years that I have had a drive fail some how. How can I repair the boot with out reloading the entire system?
 
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drtweak
I know this is old but just tossing my two cents out there.

One thing I liked to do is ALWAYS carry my Windows 10 OTG drive with me. It might pay off to buy the Enterprise version of windows just for this.

I keep it on a 240GB SSD, I have butt loads of programs. One of them being HD Sentinel which i reccomend EVERYONE to install on their servers as it is able to read SMART data of SCSI/SATA/SAS THOUGH RAID CONTROLERS!

I had someone who used me just as an emergency (they had their own tech who couldn't get away) and i had to replace their motherboard on their Dell PE2950 server. It would just sit at the loading screen. SO i booted off this guy, ran my HDS, and BAM! there were 2 failing drives! (One was gone the other going out)...
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I know this is old but just tossing my two cents out there.

One thing I liked to do is ALWAYS carry my Windows 10 OTG drive with me. It might pay off to buy the Enterprise version of windows just for this.

I keep it on a 240GB SSD, I have butt loads of programs. One of them being HD Sentinel which i reccomend EVERYONE to install on their servers as it is able to read SMART data of SCSI/SATA/SAS THOUGH RAID CONTROLERS!

I had someone who used me just as an emergency (they had their own tech who couldn't get away) and i had to replace their motherboard on their Dell PE2950 server. It would just sit at the loading screen. SO i booted off this guy, ran my HDS, and BAM! there were 2 failing drives! (One was gone the other going out) luckly they had two RAID 5's one drive in each RAID. So once i yanked the bad drive, which was part of the OS, it booted just fine. Their Tech guy was going to bring a new drive next morning but we made sure we did a backup for him as i died during the day.

Point is using the Windows OTG, and HDS, you can SEE what drive is bad and remove it and HOPE that it is trying to sync the GOOD drive to the BAD one and by removing it may allow it to boot.

The H200 is a low end RAID card. Also suggest everyone with a Dell to 1) Install Open Manage and 2) To install LSI MegaRAID Software if they have a PERC Card allowing RAID config to be done in windows and not though the controller BIOS all the time.

If it still doesn't boot you can try this.

By R-Studio Recovery

Toss the drive in another PC and clone it, skipping the bac sectors, to another drive. and then toss it in and see if it boots. This SOMETIMES works, maybe doing a check disk after might help or also running the Rescue verion of Macrium Reflect and there is a Fix Boot option in one of the menus.
 
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