Raid - system crash - help needed

[zander]

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Hi all,

My system (p4c800-deluxe) has a raid 0 array (2 sata 120gb drives) It had
winxp installed on it and something went wrong, I could no longer boot it.
(no need to get into details)

To save the data on the raid array (I don't want to reformat it) I hooked
up
an old ide 30gb drive and installed winxp on it. I'm now up and running.
My plan is to copy off the data I need from the array and later on rebuild
the system again.

I installed the promise raid driver from the asus cd and the array shows up
in 'computer management | storage' but it's not 'mounted'. So I cannot see
the array in win explorer.

It shows in the list as a basic-healthy(active)
Whereas my new ide drive which I'm now running xp from is shown
as basic-healthy(system)

My only option it seems is to convert the array from 'basic' to dynamic.
But I'm afraid of losing my data. How can I mount the array and assign it a
drive letter?

Thanks,

Zander

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

I had a similar problem and was able to copy the contents of the unmounted
drive through Drive Image 7. The problem usually occurs when your parition
table becomes corrupted.
I have a raid 0 but I also have a backup IDE hardrive which is image with
Drive Image 7 every week.
"Zander" <nomail@nomail.no> wrote in message
news:IUubd.26049$hk6.971767@news20.bellglobal.com...
> Hi all,
>
> My system (p4c800-deluxe) has a raid 0 array (2 sata 120gb drives) It had
> winxp installed on it and something went wrong, I could no longer boot
it.
> (no need to get into details)
>
> To save the data on the raid array (I don't want to reformat it) I hooked
> up
> an old ide 30gb drive and installed winxp on it. I'm now up and running.
> My plan is to copy off the data I need from the array and later on rebuild
> the system again.
>
> I installed the promise raid driver from the asus cd and the array shows
up
> in 'computer management | storage' but it's not 'mounted'. So I cannot
see
> the array in win explorer.
>
> It shows in the list as a basic-healthy(active)
> Whereas my new ide drive which I'm now running xp from is shown
> as basic-healthy(system)
>
> My only option it seems is to convert the array from 'basic' to dynamic.
> But I'm afraid of losing my data. How can I mount the array and assign it
a
> drive letter?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zander
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

This is why it would be a good idea to use RAID 1 if you have the option
available to you. RAID 0 is not fault tolerant and you can lose data if
one of the drives fail, but with RAID 1, this is not the case

-----
Nathan McNulty

msnews.microsoft.com wrote:
> I had a similar problem and was able to copy the contents of the unmounted
> drive through Drive Image 7. The problem usually occurs when your parition
> table becomes corrupted.
> I have a raid 0 but I also have a backup IDE hardrive which is image with
> Drive Image 7 every week.
> "Zander" <nomail@nomail.no> wrote in message
> news:IUubd.26049$hk6.971767@news20.bellglobal.com...
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>My system (p4c800-deluxe) has a raid 0 array (2 sata 120gb drives) It had
>>winxp installed on it and something went wrong, I could no longer boot
>
> it.
>
>>(no need to get into details)
>>
>>To save the data on the raid array (I don't want to reformat it) I hooked
>>up
>> an old ide 30gb drive and installed winxp on it. I'm now up and running.
>>My plan is to copy off the data I need from the array and later on rebuild
>>the system again.
>>
>>I installed the promise raid driver from the asus cd and the array shows
>
> up
>
>>in 'computer management | storage' but it's not 'mounted'. So I cannot
>
> see
>
>>the array in win explorer.
>>
>>It shows in the list as a basic-healthy(active)
>>Whereas my new ide drive which I'm now running xp from is shown
>>as basic-healthy(system)
>>
>>My only option it seems is to convert the array from 'basic' to dynamic.
>>But I'm afraid of losing my data. How can I mount the array and assign it
>
> a
>
>>drive letter?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Zander
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>