Advanced server 2000 RAID broken - please help
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Original error message –“Operating system not found” Assuming IDE0 disk 0 failure.. Running Windows Advanced server 2000 with three hard drives using RAID 5. Tried to use emergency recovery (with emergency disk) to restore OS. Received an error ( in setup) that windows need to write to IDE 1 disk 0 but there is no room / partition available – advised by setup to delete partition!. Declined the offer! Disabled IDE1 in setup – windows run OK. Enabled IDE 1 Disk 0 – windows runs, enabled IDE 1 disk 1 windows runs but no RAID 5 activity! Disk management reported disk 0 – dynamic on line with errors. Disk management further reported two dynamic “foreign disks” – off line and two dynamic “missing disks”. Both foreign disks reported wrong capacity. Enabled foreign disks, started windows and now have blue screen – “…cannot find boot device…”. My next step – disable IDE1 and then reload windows using emergency recovery process again. Any better idea? Just do not want to loose the data on the RAID array. Vaclav