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han.net wrote: » Hi there , I m not sure if this the right plce to put my enquiry, I have a pc with RAID 1 runing windows 7 and XP on 2 partitions . I messed up with one of them by repartitioning the one of hard drive and need to know to replae or recover that hard drive please . Regards
gateway wrote: » Using hardware or software raid? how exactly did you repartition?
gateway wrote: » ok, but how did you re partition? did you remove one hard drive from the machine and repartition it leaving one still in the machine and functional? Don't forget, raid 1 is a mirror so whatever you do to the system gets duplicated across both hdd's. I need to know exactly how you repartitioned one drive.
gateway wrote: » Right, so if it's just a data recovery exercise now then you should be able to go into the raid bios on bootup and rebuild the raid mirror. You may even be able to take the existing hdd out of the pc and plug it into another machine or an external hdd caddy to retrieve data since you have not amended any partition data on that one. The ways of doing things now varies on the options the onbaord raid gives you. What are you trying to achieve? Are you bothered about the xp and win 7 os's on this pc or can you just rebuild the raid and reinstall? You will need to do this anyway if you still want to amend/add partitions.
han.net wrote: » ok ,, I ve got on the hard drives now working fine , as I unpluged one of them . How can recover the system with second drive without losing my data on my working hdd ?
phoeneous wrote: » If you have one drive working, you should be able to replace the non-working drive and rebuild the array. Once the array has been rebuilt, the mirrored data on the working drive will be copied over to the new drive. You might have to install the Intel Matrix Storage Manager to rebuild the array. Good luck.
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