Well if the first failure was not able to completely rebuild before the second drive failure you are going to have to start over and recover from a backup. RAID 5 can only handle one hard drive failure in an array it cannot recover from 2 drive failures at the same time. Based on the information you have provided it sounds like maybe the second hard drive failure probably occurred when the first failure was almost completely rebuilt to the hot spare. That is why the system will boot but you have major problems. I don't think you can recover but I very well could be wrong you are beyond my area of expertise at this point.
Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 11:50 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] raid failure i wasn't there so i'm not sure.... i installed another copy of windows into a diff dir. i can boot fine off that. when i try to boot off the failed installation i get a 7b stop error- inaccessible_boot_device. is there anyway i can fix that installtion from this point? thanks -----Original Message----- From: Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 10:19 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] raid failure Stupid question Tom but are you sure that when the first hard drive failed that the array was able to rebuild completely using the hot spare before the second drive failed? Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 10:15 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] raid failure http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;269075 Looks like the ced means nothing really... John "Kern, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] M> To Sent by: "Bruyere, Michel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ail.activedir.org "ActiveDir (E-mail)" <ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> cc 04/11/2005 09:10 AM Subject RE: [ActiveDir] raid failure Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] tivedir.org 3 disks and 1 spare. i don't have a ghost image. i don't understand how recovery console can find the winnt folder but repair or booting the OS can't. boot.ini is pointing to the correct arc path. and what the heck is SYSTEMced? does anyone know of something that can be done to get out of this? anything i can edit? thanks alot -----Original Message----- From: Bruyere, Michel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 9:47 AM To: Kern, Tom Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] raid failure Hi, It depends on you actual configuration though, did you have 3 disks in RAID5 and 1 hotspare? Or 4disks in RAID5 straight? Last time something like that happened to me I had to recreate the whole raid (there was no hot spare drive). And then use the recovery plan I had (in this case I had a ghost of the system drive and tapes for the data). > -----Message d'origine----- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Kern, Tom Envoyé : Monday, > April 11, 2005 9:34 AM À : ActiveDir (E-mail) Objet : [ActiveDir] raid > failure > > i had 2 drives fail on a 4 disk raid 5 array. > i rebuilt the drives and now when i boot into win200, i get "cannot > find file \winnt\system32\config\systemced. > also, when i try to run a repair, i get windows200 could not be found. > i can however boot into recovery console. > anyway i can get out of this while waiting for backups to arrive. > thanks > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
