Windows RAID 5 recovery - Cannot import Foreign Disks

[Pete]

I have a Windows 2003 server running Windows RAID 5 over 4 disks. The
server was mistakenly booted with 2 of the RAID disks disconnected from the
system. After correcting that, the 2 disks are now reported as "Foreign" in
Disk Management and the disks named as "Missing" show the correct RAID
structure, but with a state of Failed. When I try to import one of the
foreign disks, I get an intermediate window that shows both disks selected
and it tries to import both together. When it fails to import, I get and
Event ID 2 "INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration
copies (C10000B6)" followed by Event ID 2 "Unspecified error (80004005)"
in the system log. I've tried diskpart with the same results. Can anyone
provide any hints on what else I can try to get this running again? Has
anyone used "RAID Reconstructor" from www.runtime.org? Thanks for reading.

Pete

 

[Arno Wagner]

I have a Windows 2003 server running Windows RAID 5 over 4 disks. The
server was mistakenly booted with 2 of the RAID disks disconnected from the
system. After correcting that, the 2 disks are now reported as "Foreign" in
Disk Management and the disks named as "Missing" show the correct RAID
structure, but with a state of Failed. When I try to import one of the
foreign disks, I get an intermediate window that shows both disks selected
and it tries to import both together. When it fails to import, I get and
Event ID 2 "INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration
copies (C10000B6)" followed by Event ID 2 "Unspecified error (80004005)"
in the system log. I've tried diskpart with the same results. Can anyone
provide any hints on what else I can try to get this running again? Has
anyone used "RAID Reconstructor" from www.runtime.org? Thanks for reading.

Pretty stupid of windows. Linux does not touch disks in a RAID, unless
it has enough to assemble it. The behaviour you observe kind of
defeats the purpose....

Arno

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Pretty stupid of windows. Linux does not touch disks in a RAID, unless
it has enough to assemble it.

And where exactly does it say that Windows did anything at all to it, Babblebot.

The behaviour you observe

And what behaviour might that be babblebot.

You have no idea what happened to the drives that were disconnected
off the system and why they were disconnected in the first place.

kind of defeats the purpose....

And what purpose is that, Babblebot.

 

[Curious George]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222189

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222189

And that helps how exactly?