My WHS started locking up shortly after boot a couple days ago. There weren't any obvious problems (no SMART failures or O/S messages), but as I was looking into it (after a couple more days) it could no longer find any boot device.
So I followed the steps to do a Reinstall, only to have the reinstall freeze up (no mouse, no nothing, left for 10 hours with no resolution) during the formatting of the O/S partition.
Now the only option I am presented with by the installation CD is a New Install onto a 20GB raw partition.
My concern is entirely about data loss - can I proceed with the New Install and have it find my existing data files? When I reinstall, do I have to have the other drives disconnected to prevent them from being wiped? If so, when I re-add, will
the new install "find" the duplication and restore the data drive in its entirety?
I have 4 drives, and everything on the Data partition of the physical Boot disk is still readable and has been copied off, leaving just the Boot Partition as corrupted and lost.
Thanks.