Help - Lost MBR on RAID drive

[Tarun Mistry]

Hi everyone, I have a system with 3 hard drives. Drive 1 is a standard c:
drive on the IDE bus. Drives 2 and 3 make a raid array via an attached raid
controller.

I was recently reinstalling windows and have deleted the drive partition or
master boot record from the raided drive. No data on it has been touched, is
there a means to make windows re-assess the drive and allow me to access it?

With kind regards,
Tarun

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi everyone, I have a system with 3 hard drives. Drive 1 is a standard c:
drive on the IDE bus. Drives 2 and 3 make a raid array via an attached raid
controller.

I was recently reinstalling windows and have deleted the drive partition or
master boot record from the raided drive. No data on it has been touched, is
there a means to make windows re-assess the drive and allow me to access it?

With kind regards,
Tarun

The MBR is a very short piece of code that determines how
a PC should boot. Only the MBR of the boot disk matters.
Since your system boots OK, your MBR is OK too.

I suspect that you deleted the partition table or the partitions
of your RAID disk, not the MBR. Perhaps a partition
recovery program can help you. I have successfully used
Acronis Recovery Expert in the past.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

testdisk from cgsecurity.org
mbrwork from terabyteunlimited.com

Either may help you recover the deleted or missing partition information.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org