Recovering data from failed spanned array?

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Hey all,

I had three disks in a dynamic spanned array. (160GB,
30GB, and a 10GB). I was doing this more to test and
play around than out of neccessity as the 160 GB is
plenty big enough. Well my data grew too big, so I was
waiting for a tape backup drive to surface that I could
use to get my data so I could break the spanned aray down
and restore the data to just the 160GB drive. Well the
30GB drive is now showing up missing. So obviously I
can't get to any of it. My questions are these:

-Is there a trick to maybe getting the 30GB drive back
with the spanned array intact?

-Is there anything I should absolutely not do while
trying to get this 30GB drive back, like moving it to
another IDE channel, loading it in another PC, etc?

-If the 30GB is 100 % dead is there a way that I can
attempt to recover some of the data that was on the other
drives?

Thanks for your assitance.

Mike

 

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Third-Party Advanced Software Tools
http://www.vogon-international.com/data%20recovery/disk_recovery-04.htm

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"Mike Busch" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message:
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| Hey all,
|
| I had three disks in a dynamic spanned array. (160GB,
| 30GB, and a 10GB). I was doing this more to test and
| play around than out of neccessity as the 160 GB is
| plenty big enough. Well my data grew too big, so I was
| waiting for a tape backup drive to surface that I could
| use to get my data so I could break the spanned aray down
| and restore the data to just the 160GB drive. Well the
| 30GB drive is now showing up missing. So obviously I
| can't get to any of it. My questions are these:
|
| -Is there a trick to maybe getting the 30GB drive back
| with the spanned array intact?
|
| -Is there anything I should absolutely not do while
| trying to get this 30GB drive back, like moving it to
| another IDE channel, loading it in another PC, etc?
|
| -If the 30GB is 100 % dead is there a way that I can
| attempt to recover some of the data that was on the other
| drives?
|
| Thanks for your assitance.
|
| Mike

 

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That's seems like an expensive option to reclaim non work
data. Are there any free alternatives?

Mike


>-----Original Message-----
>Third-Party Advanced Software Tools
>http://www.vogon-international.com/data%
20recovery/disk_recovery-04.htm
>
>--
>Carey Frisch
>Microsoft MVP
>Windows XP - Shell/User
>
>Be Smart! Protect your PC!
>http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
>
>---------------------------------------------------------
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>
>"Mike Busch" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message:
> news:1b2e901c42035$a2bd5890$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>
>| Hey all,
>|
>| I had three disks in a dynamic spanned array. (160GB,
>| 30GB, and a 10GB). I was doing this more to test and
>| play around than out of neccessity as the 160 GB is
>| plenty big enough. Well my data grew too big, so I
was
>| waiting for a tape backup drive to surface that I
could
>| use to get my data so I could break the spanned aray
down
>| and restore the data to just the 160GB drive. Well
the
>| 30GB drive is now showing up missing. So obviously I
>| can't get to any of it. My questions are these:
>|
>| -Is there a trick to maybe getting the 30GB drive back
>| with the spanned array intact?
>|
>| -Is there anything I should absolutely not do while
>| trying to get this 30GB drive back, like moving it to
>| another IDE channel, loading it in another PC, etc?
>|
>| -If the 30GB is 100 % dead is there a way that I can
>| attempt to recover some of the data that was on the
other
>| drives?
>|
>| Thanks for your assitance.
>|
>| Mike
>.
>

 

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