Recovering data from failed spanned array?

[Mike Busch]

Hey all,

I had three disks in a dynamic spanned array. (160GB,
30GB, and a 10GB). I was doing this more to test and
play around than out of neccessity as the 160 GB is
plenty big enough. Well my data grew too big, so I was
waiting for a tape backup drive to surface that I could
use to get my data so I could break the spanned aray down
and restore the data to just the 160GB drive. Well the
30GB drive is now showing up missing. So obviously I
can't get to any of it. My questions are these:

-Is there a trick to maybe getting the 30GB drive back
with the spanned array intact?

-Is there anything I should absolutely not do while
trying to get this 30GB drive back, like moving it to
another IDE channel, loading it in another PC, etc?

-If the 30GB is 100 % dead is there a way that I can
attempt to recover some of the data that was on the other
drives?

Thanks for your assitance.

Mike

 

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| Hey all,
|
| I had three disks in a dynamic spanned array. (160GB,
| 30GB, and a 10GB). I was doing this more to test and
| play around than out of neccessity as the 160 GB is
| plenty big enough. Well my data grew too big, so I was
| waiting for a tape backup drive to surface that I could
| use to get my data so I could break the spanned aray down
| and restore the data to just the 160GB drive. Well the
| 30GB drive is now showing up missing. So obviously I
| can't get to any of it. My questions are these:
|
| -Is there a trick to maybe getting the 30GB drive back
| with the spanned array intact?
|
| -Is there anything I should absolutely not do while
| trying to get this 30GB drive back, like moving it to
| another IDE channel, loading it in another PC, etc?
|
| -If the 30GB is 100 % dead is there a way that I can
| attempt to recover some of the data that was on the other
| drives?
|
| Thanks for your assitance.
|
| Mike

 

[Mike Busch]

That's seems like an expensive option to reclaim non work
data. Are there any free alternatives?

Mike

 

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