2 disk RAID 5 failure

[daddyx]

Hello,

Stupidly, I pulled two of the three drives while my machine was running and I now no longer can boot the machine. I pulled the two drives separately (pulled one, put it back, pulled the other..) and the machine continued to operate. It was afterwards when I rebooted the machine that we now get errors about no boot device and such.

The questions I have are:

1. Is it possible to install the operating system we are using onto a new drive, locate the other 3 drives we were using and grab the documents/data that we want form them?

2. Will we need a program to recover the documents/data?

 

[sminlal]

Your best bet for recovering the data might be to download one of the LiveCD distributions of Linux and boot from it. Most of them have drivers which can recognize RAID configurations, and if you connect all of the drives from your former RAID set as simple, individual, non-RAID drives then you may be able to copy files from them onto another drive.

 

[daddyx]

I will look further into this. Thanks for replying.

 

[FireWire2]

check with your RAID GUI to see whether the create a raid function offers:
- NO INITIALIZE
- RESCUE MODE..
These are the modes just write the raid info into HDD for some controller

You may see the raid volume with some data invalid

Note: In any circumstance - DO NOT INITIALIZE the raid <-- this will clean your data