Microsoft Software mirroring (Data recovery)

[saddison]

Forgive me if this has already been asked and answered but i am having
real problems trying to find an answer.

I have a Windows 2000 server which is acting as a file server. i have
configured 2 HDD for dynamic software mirroring using the Windows tools
and all is good.Data is being copied and mirrored across the 2 hard
drives. I started to work through some disaster recovery scenarios and
cannot find a solution to this one.

One of the mirrored drives fails and the server hardware fails. The
'good' mirrored hard drive is removed and I want to copy data from
it. How do I do it?

I have tried connecting the hard drive to another server but disk
management displays the drive as "unreadable" and the only option
available seems to be reformatting it. I would have thought that I
could connect the hard drive and just copy data from it but this does
not seem to be possible.

Please let me know what I am missing here as its driving me crazy!

 

[ratman and bobbin]

Forgive me if this has already been asked and answered but i am having
real problems trying to find an answer.

I have a Windows 2000 server which is acting as a file server. i have
configured 2 HDD for dynamic software mirroring using the Windows tools
and all is good.Data is being copied and mirrored across the 2 hard
drives. I started to work through some disaster recovery scenarios and
cannot find a solution to this one.

One of the mirrored drives fails and the server hardware fails. The
'good' mirrored hard drive is removed and I want to copy data from
it. How do I do it?

I have tried connecting the hard drive to another server but disk
management displays the drive as "unreadable" and the only option
available seems to be reformatting it. I would have thought that I
could connect the hard drive and just copy data from it but this does
not seem to be possible.

Please let me know what I am missing here as its driving me crazy!

How about mounting the drive as the boot drive on other hardware? To
recover from a recent problem I simply connected a Raid 5 array to another
computer and the system came back up.
Geoff

 

[saddison]

Thanks for the suggestion but the drive is not the boot drive, Its only
used to store files and folders
I did try your idea on a mirrored boot drive and like you say it works
(solved one of my other problems) so thanks for the idea.

Any thoughts on the other problem?

Si

 

[ratman and bobbin]

Thanks for the suggestion but the drive is not the boot drive, Its only
used to store files and folders
I did try your idea on a mirrored boot drive and like you say it works
(solved one of my other problems) so thanks for the idea.

Any thoughts on the other problem?

Si

So you have a mirrored pair and then another hd, not mirrored, and its the
unprotected hd you have this problem with? Did you configure it as Dynamic?
Maybe this is the problem.
Geoff

 

[saddison]

Sorry for replying so late, the setup is:

Windows 2000 server loaded onto Disk1

Disk2 is a Dymanic Mirrored drive
Disk3 is a Dymanic Mirrored drive

The dymanic drives contain files and folders of users on the network

The scernario is:
Disk3 has a hardware problem and the becomes faulty. Disk1 fails and is
not recoverable. The hardware fails and cannot be reproduced.

I want to be able to connect Disk2 to another server and access the
data on the disk but i cannot seem to do this.

Any help would be great!