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Retrieve data off broken mirror

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by njaneardude-30601088 1 view

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I had a mirrored drive dye on my 2k server. Mirrored off HPT370 motherboard raid. I need to desperately get data off the good drive. Attempted to put drive alone on server and boot with no luck, NO OS FOUND error. Can I possibly put this in a production server as a additional drive and retrieve data. What is my best course of action. This is very important. Please help.

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by don christner

If you had the system drive mirrored and the first system drive died, you would have to edit the boot.ini file in order for the system to boot off of the second (mirrored) drive. Boot.ini is a hidden system file, you will need to change it's attibutes in order to edit it.

See the following on the MS site.

Q113977 Booting From Mirror After Primary Partition Is Lost
Q120227 Steps to Recover a Failed Mirrored System/Boot Partition
Q114779 Overview of Disk Mirroring (RAID Level 1) in Windows NT

Don

by njaneardude-30601088

It's been a long time, it's a IDE drive, edit the last part from (1) what it is now to?

Is it still possible to just add drive and copy data?

I'll give ya the points anyway.

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