I had 2 500gb drives and 1tb drive in my WHS build, the power supply failed and in the process fried the system drive on my WHS (charred the circuit board). I'm left with the 2nd 500gb drive and the 1tb in good functioning condition. I picked up 2 WD 1tb drives today with the intention to rebuild the WHS using the initial 1tb drive as the new system drive (operating at 7200rpm vs the 5400 WD green drives). What is my best course of action considering I have data that I would like to recover from the 2 functioning drives before reinstalling the software. I understand I will be losing a portion of the data that was lost on the system drive but I would still like to recover the remaining data + know what information I've lost. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Can I restore the data to another system then rebuild the WHS?
You should do a Server Reinstallation. Just replace the failed drive with a new one and boot from the DVD. After that, follow Ken Warren's FAQ post
FAQ: How do I upgrade from the evaluation/trial to a full copy of WHS? (Although it's for a different scenario, the steps are the same.)
