Recover Software RAID 5

[Guest]

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I accidently deleted the software Raid 5 I had setup on my server at home
from the Disk Management console. At this point, the disk management
console only sees 7 new drives in my server (which used to be the raid 5
volume.)

I was wondering if there was anyway to recreate it without losing any of
the data?

Should I recreate the raid 5 volume, don't format and run ftonline to see
if it comes back, or am I SOL?

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.file_system (More info?)

As far as I am aware, you will need a third party recovery service, or a
call to MS support. If it wasn't a RAID5, the method described in this MS
Knowledge Base could have been used, but it explicitly says that this does
not work for a RAID5:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=245725

Best regards

Bjorn
--
Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server - File System)

Painkilla <pain*71*@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I accidently deleted the software Raid 5 I had setup on my server at home
>from the Disk Management console. At this point, the disk management
>console only sees 7 new drives in my server (which used to be the raid 5
>volume.)
>
>I was wondering if there was anyway to recreate it without losing any of
>the data?
>
>Should I recreate the raid 5 volume, don't format and run ftonline to see
>if it comes back, or am I SOL?
>
>Thanks.