RAID 1 - Serious question

[Guest]

According to Partition Magic 8.0 I have an error in the boot sector of my
RAID 1 HD (2 hd’s mirrored). Of course, Partition Magic thinks it’s a single
drive, and it wants me to run chkdsk /f to correct the problem.

When I boot from the XP CD, it asks for third party disc drivers, which I
have the newest copy of from the motherboard manuf., and I hit F6 and load
the driver when prompted. When I get the that prompts me to hit R to get to
the recovery console, it says there are no HD’s…

I believe all my data is still safe n both HD’s – they just will not boot,
and I can find no way to run chkdsk /f on them.

I have a second system with another RAID 1 setup on it, running fine. Is it
possible to install one of the corrupt HD’s in the other system either to run
chkdsk /f on it or just retrieve the data ?


You have no idea how thankful I will be if anyone can fix this.

 

[Elmo]

I have a second system with another RAID 1 setup on it, running fine. Is
it possible to install one of the corrupt HD’s in the other system either
to run chkdsk /f on it or just retrieve the data ?

If the hardware is identical on both systems, you should be able to boot
with the drive on the other one. Did you try adding the drive to the other
system and and view the files on them?
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