Re: Importing Dynamic Disks

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Hi Kerry,
Thanks for the reply.
I have tryed using ghost8 to take an image, but after i select the drive for
ghosting i get a bad block error and cant proceed any further. I have also
tryed several other ghosting tools and they all give me a block error.
The Seagate drive i have for some reason does not support self termination.
I am going to try another cable.
I dont think it had a RAID setup, as when i tryed importing the drive there
was no data inconsistenceies, which i would of thought would represent a RAID
setup.
I have not tryed a chdsk, if possible, i will try running this in recovery
console, as i cannot access the drive in windows.
I am starting to get to the point where i think it is a physical problem
with the disk. I hope he had a mirror setup so i can maybe try and get the
data from the second drive.
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Thanks for the help

D


"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> Dwrcoz24 wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a problem i hope someone can shed some light on.
> > I am trying to get data from an old SCSI HDD drive which was
> > previously installed in a windows 2000 box, and configured as a
> > dynamic disk.
> > The current cofiguration i have setup is:
> > Primary master: - IDE drive with windows XP installed (Boots from
> > this) Adaptec SCSI host controller 2940 UW installed and old drive
> > attatched to this with LUN ID 0 and auto terminated.
> > This the process i have followed so far:
> > When i boot into windows XP i go into disk management and rescan
> > disks i see the foreign disk
> > I have imported the foreign disk, which showed there no error when
> > importing and creating the disk group.
> > Once completed it shows the disk with a drive letter but it shows
> > Online (with errors)
> >
> > From MS KB articles and googling this can occur due to a controller,
> > cabling or drive error.
> > I know the controller works and cable works as i have used this in
> > another server. Is anyone aware of any other way i can sucessfully
> > get this disk online, or any tools i can use to verifying the disk is
> > ok, without destroying the data?
>
> I would image the drive with Acronis True Image, Norton Ghost or something
> similar before doing anything. Can you see any files on the drive? Was the
> drive part of a RAID array or mirror? Have you tried chkdsk? Auto
> termination often causes problems. Do you have an active terminator you can
> try? If not try setting the terminator jumper on the drive. Do not set the
> drive to supply termination voltage.
>
> Kerry
>
>
>
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