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Geoffrey Robinson Posted on Sep 21, 2013
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My main Raid device is critical and subsequently the computer won't start. The computer tries to start up but after advising the Raid 1 is critical closes down and tries to restart again. It messages to say there is a problem and to advise the administrator 'me' or to try the disc

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Your RAID device is specifying that it has no confidence in the data and subsequently won't show the disk to the OS. It's doing the right thing.

What you need to do is to get your RAID controller to force-mount the array. In this mode, it will just show whatever it can get from the disks to the OS. Boot from a live CD of choice and get the data off via network or USB. Each RAID controller has a different way to go about this, so you'll have to figure that out.

If your RAID controller can't do that, then you'll end up needing special software to do it. http://www.diskinternals.com/raid-recovery/ has a trial available that you can decide whether or not it's worthwhile

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