Hi all,
Below are two different questions posted by me and answer of an expert may be. Do you think its the right way to recover the data? Also suggest how I can get two arrays running on one machine.
Question ONE:
I have a DELL Poweredge 2800 with a Raid 5 configrutaion of 3 hard drives capacity 73GB 10k Ultra 320 SCSI. Two of the hard discs started blinking 4 times per second which clearly states the hardware failure in dell systems. So 2 out of the 3 HDs stopped working. Unfortunately, I do not have any backup.
I tried to bring the hard drives ONLINE by FORCE option provided in the utility manager to configure RAID and got the hard drives up but couldn't login to windows server 2003. It started showing NTLDR, NTDETECT and ntsokrl.exe missing messages. I also copied the files using recovery console with Windows Server installation CD but still no use and system is not booting up anymore.
How I can recover the data back. Is it possible to get back? I offcourse do not require each and everything stored on the Hard drive but one SQL Server database and a folder of more than 50k employees pictures is very important.
Answer:
Likely you could get the OS running with an "over the top" Win 2003 repair install but this will lessen your chance at data recovery. Personally I would add another disk as a single drive (raid 0 ), get the OS installed on that disk, then pull off any needed data from the original array. If you proceed with the original array restoration, there is a very good chance original data will be over written, due to corruption.
Question TWO:
Can you please provide some basic steps that how should I add a single drive Raid 0? I really dont know how to configure two arrays on one machine and bootup fromt the newly installed and use the old one as secondary.
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Thanks for any help.
Below are two different questions posted by me and answer of an expert may be. Do you think its the right way to recover the data? Also suggest how I can get two arrays running on one machine.
Question ONE:
I have a DELL Poweredge 2800 with a Raid 5 configrutaion of 3 hard drives capacity 73GB 10k Ultra 320 SCSI. Two of the hard discs started blinking 4 times per second which clearly states the hardware failure in dell systems. So 2 out of the 3 HDs stopped working. Unfortunately, I do not have any backup.
I tried to bring the hard drives ONLINE by FORCE option provided in the utility manager to configure RAID and got the hard drives up but couldn't login to windows server 2003. It started showing NTLDR, NTDETECT and ntsokrl.exe missing messages. I also copied the files using recovery console with Windows Server installation CD but still no use and system is not booting up anymore.
How I can recover the data back. Is it possible to get back? I offcourse do not require each and everything stored on the Hard drive but one SQL Server database and a folder of more than 50k employees pictures is very important.
Answer:
Likely you could get the OS running with an "over the top" Win 2003 repair install but this will lessen your chance at data recovery. Personally I would add another disk as a single drive (raid 0 ), get the OS installed on that disk, then pull off any needed data from the original array. If you proceed with the original array restoration, there is a very good chance original data will be over written, due to corruption.
Question TWO:
Can you please provide some basic steps that how should I add a single drive Raid 0? I really dont know how to configure two arrays on one machine and bootup fromt the newly installed and use the old one as secondary.
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Thanks for any help.