Good Evening-
I've searched a number of threads but none have reached the same
situation and I fear proceeding forwards.
I had a system with a 200gb seagate boot drive formatted as NTFS.
Concerned for data lost, I purchased an identical drive, slipped it
in, and duplicate the file structure. Windows offered (And I
accepted) to upgrade the 2nd drive to Dynamic.
Subsequent to this manual mirroring process a system lockup occurred.
Concerned, I yanked the backup. System would no longer boot. Yanked
all the power hungry drives, cards, etc, and finally got back up.
System would not boot with backup drive present, however, and drive
made those nasty little 'sighing' sounds... figured the PSU was going.
Eventually couldn't boot into w2k anymore on primary 200gb drive and
installed the drive into another system. W2k kindly 'fixed' my
configuration (inspection) and hosed pretty much every file pointer.
Backup drive was installed into the new system and, while detected,
reads as 'unreadable dynamic' under disk management.
Now Ideally I'd like to recover all of the files on the backup dynamic
disk. I can not, however, discern a safe manner of doing so.
I have DVDs of 80% of the most important files (images, weddings,
graduations, etc) but the software and imaging chains, not to mention
output work, was only mirrored for safety, not actively offline-backed
up.
Sad to say but there's a 3rd Seagate 200gb on it's way. Haven't
decided if I'm going to keep it as I don't know if the drives failed,
the PSU corrupted them, the mobo killed them, or someone upstairs just
doesn't like me.
Suggestions greatly appreciated, as long as they don't inform me to
'backup' more often.
Jason
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