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David
I have an IDE raid 5 array implemented with windows 2000. I am not
using a dedicated hardware raid card. This raid is done with Windows
2000 Disk administrator.
The OS is on a stand alone disk (C
. I made 3 separate partitions
utilizing this 5 disk raid (E:, F: and G.
Unfortunately I was not keeping a close enough watch on the server
when two things happened around the same time. One of the hard drives
in the RAID array failed while the C drive ran out of disk space.
The RAID went into failed redundancy mode, then the system became very
unstable and unresponsive (due to the lack of free disk space on the
OS drive). I was able to shut down normally, but after waiting for
almost an hour after windows gave it's shut down messages (shutting
down network connections, etc.), I was left with a blue screen and a
mouse pointer. I decided to remove power.
After the system rebooted I saw the problem with drive space on Drive
C and made some free space. Then I went into disc administrator. The
array indicated FAILED. I was able to right click on each partition
and reactivate the partitions. This left them in a failed redundancy
mode.
I then shut down and replaced the failed drive. When I rebooted, the
array again indicated failed. The new drive was there unallocated and
the old drive indicated missing. Since I couldn't figure out a way to
get this drive into the array and the amount of data in the entire
array would fit on one drive anyway, I decided to leave it in failed
redundancy mode, then just copy all the data over to this fresh drive
for safe keeping.
All of the data was intact except for one directory which contains
thousands of subdirectories. This is in fact the bulk of the data.
It said the directory was corrupt and I needed to run CHKDSK. I ran
it with the /f option. The first time it fixed a LOT of problems, but
again the directory was still unreadable. I have run chkdsk many
times in hopes of at least getting some of the data back, but I have
not had any success.
I'm wondering if anyone can suggest anything that may allow me to
retrieve any part of the data. Remember it is in numerous
subdirectories so even if I can get back 50% of these subdirectories
it would be a good thing. Unfortunately most of this data was not
backed up. I know that the array is still intact because there is a
lot of data on it that is still readable, so I'm hoping that there is
something that can still be done.
THank you in advance!
D
using a dedicated hardware raid card. This raid is done with Windows
2000 Disk administrator.
The OS is on a stand alone disk (C
. I made 3 separate partitionsutilizing this 5 disk raid (E:, F: and G
.Unfortunately I was not keeping a close enough watch on the server
when two things happened around the same time. One of the hard drives
in the RAID array failed while the C drive ran out of disk space.
The RAID went into failed redundancy mode, then the system became very
unstable and unresponsive (due to the lack of free disk space on the
OS drive). I was able to shut down normally, but after waiting for
almost an hour after windows gave it's shut down messages (shutting
down network connections, etc.), I was left with a blue screen and a
mouse pointer. I decided to remove power.
After the system rebooted I saw the problem with drive space on Drive
C and made some free space. Then I went into disc administrator. The
array indicated FAILED. I was able to right click on each partition
and reactivate the partitions. This left them in a failed redundancy
mode.
I then shut down and replaced the failed drive. When I rebooted, the
array again indicated failed. The new drive was there unallocated and
the old drive indicated missing. Since I couldn't figure out a way to
get this drive into the array and the amount of data in the entire
array would fit on one drive anyway, I decided to leave it in failed
redundancy mode, then just copy all the data over to this fresh drive
for safe keeping.
All of the data was intact except for one directory which contains
thousands of subdirectories. This is in fact the bulk of the data.
It said the directory was corrupt and I needed to run CHKDSK. I ran
it with the /f option. The first time it fixed a LOT of problems, but
again the directory was still unreadable. I have run chkdsk many
times in hopes of at least getting some of the data back, but I have
not had any success.
I'm wondering if anyone can suggest anything that may allow me to
retrieve any part of the data. Remember it is in numerous
subdirectories so even if I can get back 50% of these subdirectories
it would be a good thing. Unfortunately most of this data was not
backed up. I know that the array is still intact because there is a
lot of data on it that is still readable, so I'm hoping that there is
something that can still be done.
THank you in advance!
D