Hardware RAID Mirror Fails! Need Help :(
Hi Pros,
I have a server running Win 2K3 with an Intel DQ35MP motherboard.I have installed Server 2K3 with RAID Drivers and everything were running pretty well until the time when the Power Failed and unfortunately UPS ran out of battery and BAAAM! (Power Failed=5 hours!!!! ) What I faced after starting my computer was nothing except one error: "NTLDR is missing" . So I started to thinking about doing a Fixboot via CMD and unfortunately I saw 2 Local Drives that contain boot sector, so I found out that the RAID has been Broken. Now,these two hard disk are working very well seprately but when I plug in both of them on my motherboard windows fails to start.
Now is there any reason to rebuild the RAID drivers of my Hard Disks?
I have a server running Win 2K3 with an Intel DQ35MP motherboard.I have installed Server 2K3 with RAID Drivers and everything were running pretty well until the time when the Power Failed and unfortunately UPS ran out of battery and BAAAM! (Power Failed=5 hours!!!! ) What I faced after starting my computer was nothing except one error: "NTLDR is missing" . So I started to thinking about doing a Fixboot via CMD and unfortunately I saw 2 Local Drives that contain boot sector, so I found out that the RAID has been Broken. Now,these two hard disk are working very well seprately but when I plug in both of them on my motherboard windows fails to start.
Now is there any reason to rebuild the RAID drivers of my Hard Disks?
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1. Before anything else take one of the working drives, and back it up bit for bit
Now you are left with both system drives, and a backup drive (3 drives total)
2. Format one of the raid drives with the same filesystem it already has
3. Boot off of a single drive
4. http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-029023.htm
Just WHATEVER YOU DO : Back up EVERYTHING to a third drive and lock it away before you play with or rebuild the raid on the two current drives
Windows is toast regardless, because of hidden registry hives. Those point to the boot device, and must be updated when the RAID breaks. Problem being: they're not meant to ever be updated, and can't be on XP, Vista, or 2K3. They're set at install, and that's that. The RAID boot device is unique to each array, and rebuild will wipe the drives.
So copy everything off to another drive, rebuild the array, reinstall, restore. That's your only option.