Windows Raid...lost?

**mattwalker** · 10-07-09, 04:02 PM

Hey all,

I have a stupid question....

I hd 3 x 1tb hdd's running via windows in a raid. ( no backup/no redundancy )

My operating system hdd started to smoke last night and it is all bad news.

I have reinstalled a new O/S -windows 7 (7127)- and originally I had windows XP prof.

When I go to 'my computer' the drive is no longer there and when I go to the manage drives I can see the 3 drives but they all say failed. I have the option to 'reactivate' but this does nothing.

Is there any way of rebuilding this raid?

I would love to get the info back if possible...

I have backed up (via acronis) the really important things but it would still be nice to get this info back.

Any ideas guys please?

**Zero Alpha** · 10-07-09, 05:21 PM

Which RAID was it? Striped I take it?

**mattwalker** · 10-07-09, 09:53 PM

I guess so!

I am by no means an expert at this sort of thing as was just dipping the toes so to speak....

It was just whatever windows gave me as an option.

I am reinstalling XP prof now...see if that makes a diff?

**mattwalker** · 10-07-09, 10:22 PM

no difference .... any other ideas?

**mattwalker** · 10-07-09, 11:58 PM

here is a screen shot from the PC:

**Zero Alpha** · 13-07-09, 08:03 PM

Arh you were using dynamic disks...

**Zero Alpha** · 13-07-09, 08:44 PM

Recovery is possible. Reinstalling windows was a waste of time. I take it you had 3 X 1TB disks in a striped dynamic disk array? One of those hard disks is listed as missing. Check your bios to make sure all hard disks are being intialised.

**knight2001dts** · 15-07-09, 12:04 AM

I thought there was a 2TB drive/partition size limit with XP?

**Zero Alpha** · 15-07-09, 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by knight2001dts

I thought there was a 2TB drive/partition size limit with XP?

Well 2TB would work out being the limit if you were using a MBR with the default 512k sector allocation. Do the maths.

Anyway OP i bet you are using seagate 7200.11 1TB drives am I correct or am I correct?