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Recovering a RAID 0 disk

  • 26-03-2007 12:22pm
    #1
    Boro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,560 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys,

    bit of a problem. Had RAID 0 set up on a machine and the 2nd harddrive failed - mechanical. Someone tried to fix it and removed the RAID striping i think. Anyway, is there a way of taking the one remaining drive (SATA btw) and booting directly from it? I have a backup of the drive.

    Im not interested in remaking the RAID 0 array, just in getting this machine to boot. The server OS is windows 2003 and its a dell poweredge sc420.

    Cheers


Comments

  • #2
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Yeah, format the drive and re-install without a raid array.

    Other then that, its going nowhere fast as your missing half of all your data.


  • #3
    Boro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,560 ✭✭✭Boro


    Thought that would be the case, cheers for the reply


  • #4
    quaidox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭quaidox


    if you lose one drive in a raid 0 array the array is gone. there is no redundancy in a raid 0 array. it is only used for faster drive read/writes


  • #5
    Boro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,560 ✭✭✭Boro


    yup, i didnt set it up unfortunately.


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,583 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    krazy_8s wrote:
    Other then that, its going nowhere fast as your missing half of all your data.
    Depends on the stripe size (64KB ?), for files smaller than it 50:50 chance they would be on the drive, probably readable only by scanning raw sectors. Any file bigger than that would be split between both drives and be incomplete, and for most intents unusable. So unless you hard drive only contained text files most of the data is gone.


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