unable to access two of three volumes in striped set, recovery console help

[R]

I'll try to be brief.

OS: winxp pro sp1

Hardware: pc clone, intel p3 1226mhz, 512mb ram, ide raid controller card
with a pair of
wd 80gb ide hdd's configured as one raid 1 drive. Raid
drive contains three
volumes each around 50gb ntfs file system.

Problem: After removing a DVD RW and replacing it with a CDRom windows
can't access
two of the volumes on the raid disk.
I'm not sure if changing the drives is what caused the
problem but the problem didn't
exist before that.
In explorer the drives are labeled "local disk" and if I
try to access them I get an error
that the drive is not formatted. So it would seem that the
"mbr" or the "fat" has been
damaged or lost.
I've tried a number of things with no success. Tried to use
the recovery console but
I can't remember the admin pw. I thought that I had left it
blank, but just hitting the
return key doesn't work..

I've got almost 100gb of data on those two volumes(I hope) I really don't
want to loose it!

Any help with the original problem or the password problem would really be
appreciated.

TIA

Rick

 

[Malke]

I'll try to be brief.

OS: winxp pro sp1

Hardware: pc clone, intel p3 1226mhz, 512mb ram, ide raid
controller card with a pair of
wd 80gb ide hdd's configured as one raid 1 drive.
Raid
drive contains three
volumes each around 50gb ntfs file system.

Problem: After removing a DVD RW and replacing it with a CDRom
windows can't access
two of the volumes on the raid disk.
I'm not sure if changing the drives is what caused the
problem but the problem didn't
exist before that.
In explorer the drives are labeled "local disk" and
if I
try to access them I get an error
that the drive is not formatted. So it would seem that
the
"mbr" or the "fat" has been
damaged or lost.
I've tried a number of things with no success. Tried
to use
the recovery console but
I can't remember the admin pw. I thought that I had
left it
blank, but just hitting the
return key doesn't work..

I've got almost 100gb of data on those two volumes(I hope) I really
don't want to loose it!

Any help with the original problem or the password problem would
really be appreciated.

Here's an article about the password problem in the Recovery Console:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308402

I would also open the box again and make sure the jumpers on all drives
are correct and cables are nice and tight. It just seems so unlikely
that changing out a cd-type drive would affect the hard drives at all.
Maybe this is a coincidence, but it can't hurt to check your physical
connections.

Malke