I have a SCSI disk drive that was part of a mirror RAID1 set on our Windows
2000 Server. Well I rebooted the other day, and the Raid system marks it as
‘Failed.’ The drive is only 8 months old, so I don't buy that its really
‘failed. I put the drive in an old Dell Power Edge 2300, and the RAID
controller picks it up fine. So I activate it, and boot into NT 4.0 server.

In NT Server, it asks if I want to write a Disk Signature to the drive.
Should I? I’m worried if I do this, it will wipe out the MBR and/or Data
from the Windows 2000 server setup. Is there a risk doing this? I just want
to see if the data is still there from the Win2000 server.

"Courtney R" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:070A8F31-B083-491D-B9A3-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a SCSI disk drive that was part of a mirror RAID1 set on our Windows
> 2000 Server. Well I rebooted the other day, and the Raid system marks it as
> 'Failed.' The drive is only 8 months old, so I don't buy that its really
> 'failed. I put the drive in an old Dell Power Edge 2300, and the RAID
> controller picks it up fine. So I activate it, and boot into NT 4.0 server.
>
> In NT Server, it asks if I want to write a Disk Signature to the drive.
> Should I? I'm worried if I do this, it will wipe out the MBR and/or Data
> from the Windows 2000 server setup. Is there a risk doing this? I just want
> to see if the data is still there from the Win2000 server.

No, the disk signature has nothing to do with the MBR or data
portions of a drive.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Courtney R" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:070A8F31-B083-491D-B9A3-(E-Mail Removed)...
|I have a SCSI disk drive that was part of a mirror RAID1 set on our Windows
| 2000 Server. Well I rebooted the other day, and the Raid system marks it
as
| 'Failed.' The drive is only 8 months old, so I don't buy that its really
| 'failed. I put the drive in an old Dell Power Edge 2300, and the RAID
| controller picks it up fine. So I activate it, and boot into NT 4.0
server.
|
| In NT Server, it asks if I want to write a Disk Signature to the drive.
| Should I? I'm worried if I do this, it will wipe out the MBR and/or Data
| from the Windows 2000 server setup. Is there a risk doing this? I just
want
| to see if the data is still there from the Win2000 server.
|