My primary hard drive failed and had to be replaced. During the reinstall of windows, it began installing on one of 4 raid disks. Since the 3 remaining raid disks still have enough data to restore the 4th hard drive, I am wondering if and how I could tell
the freshly installed operating system that all 4 drives are a raid 5 and then do a restore of the 4th drive? It is/was a software raid setup.
Can't believe how easy this was to fix. For anyone else, just go to computer management > disk management > right click on one of the good drives > import foreign disks > it will auto find the raid > ok. Then right click on the raid drive
and click repair, and it will find the formatted drive (you might have to reformat the drive) and start syncing your information.
Marked as answer bySean Zhu -Thursday, August 2, 2012 5:23 AM
If you have your disks connected to a RAID HBA, consult the manual that came with it, and their tech support web site, to determine how/if the array can be recovered. If you were using Windows software RAID, your data is probably lost.
It was a windows software raid. The install only deleted the partition, it didn't write any data to the drive, so I'm trying to recover the partition. Does anyone know a utility that could recover a partition that was part of a raid setup?
Can't believe how easy this was to fix. For anyone else, just go to computer management > disk management > right click on one of the good drives > import foreign disks > it will auto find the raid > ok. Then right click on the raid drive
and click repair, and it will find the formatted drive (you might have to reformat the drive) and start syncing your information.
Marked as answer bySean Zhu -Thursday, August 2, 2012 5:23 AM