Dell Poweredge 2850 SCSI Raid 1 Windows died without warning, boots and runs check disk. then fails 20% into checking indexes. Have run Dell diagnostics on everything including disc surface scan (all ok) Looked at drives using the PERC/CERC BIOS config utility - they are online and RAID 1 drive state optimal. I can get into the Windows recovery console and have replaced the mraid2k.sys driver I have also tried a repair through recovery console, and get "Setup has determined that Drive C: is corrupted" I have tried chkdsk /r from the recovery console but fails after 17% any ideas?
Even if the scan says all ok I suspect bad sectors. To confirm try making images of the drives.
If you are able to get good images you can try raid reconstruction software.
If you need help I would suggest http://FreeDataRecovery.us they offer both online data recovery and do-it-yourself data recovery
SOURCE: booting from mirrored drive
GO TO STAERT AND CKICK ON IT ... WHERE IT SAYS "RUN" TYPE IN CHKDISK. ALSO CLICK "START" AND CLICK ON "SEARCH" SEL;ECT ALL FILES FOR SEARCH AND TYPE IN CHKDISK .... THIS MAY TAKE A WHILE. IT WILL SHOW EVERY LOCATION OF CHKDISK. CLICK ON EACH ONE AND CLICK OPEN OR RUN. ALSO CHECK ADMINISTRATOR/USER TO MAKE SURE YOU ONLY HAVE ONE. ITS LOCATED UNDER CONTROL PANEL. GOOD LUCK
SOURCE: OS on RAID is corrupt
Hi Compufixa,
Your problem is with the system needing a raid driver for the motherboard or the raid card. pretend you are installing windows with bartpe. it also asks you for the raid drivers. use a floppy disk with the raid drivers and let it load. that should let you see the raid drives as a set.
Hi Guest,
Your problem is a little different. since its a mirror raid. you might want to try taking out one of the drive and work with a single drive until it is fix. try doing a repair with the windows CD. seems like there are some corrupted OS files. And you might want to start a new question since your problem is really different from Compufixa's problem. Thanks
SOURCE: I have recently purchased a new HDD (I now have 2
1. If you are just setting up your computer to have an a regular HDD and Backup HDD, i would think you should be able to set that up by booting onto your computer regularly, go to start, then into My Computer and right clicking on the HDD you want to set as Raid 1.
But if just want that other HDD for Space on your computer, all you had to do was plug it in and there you go... extra space.
Now if your installing windows 7 on the other drive i would find that pointless because you already have it on your first drive unless your putting 2 operating systems onto your computer.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for your reply PC Tech, Unfortunately things have gone from bad to worse! I returned to the PERC/CERC BIOS utility to check the consistency of the drives and the utility hung. - Since then the boot sequence stops before I can access the setup, any of the utils or the CD rom. I am left thinking the Riser kit need replacing as I get a message saying Memory/battery problems detected.
Problem Solved. Windows saw the drive a corrupt due to a failure in the Raid Memory. The board Ram was the memory tested by the Dell utilities which was fine, but the Raid Riser has a battery and its own memory (which was faulty) - Replaced the memory and windows fired up fine. I hope this helps others with the same problem.
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