I had drives fail in both logical drives on a server. When I replaced failed 146GB drive in Raid 5 array with four (4) 146GB drives. On reboot the Smart Array controller asked if I wanted to accept data loss. Guess mistake to choose yes.
Can't seem to find a way to get system to repair RAID5 but it seems to want to just create a new partition.
Is there anyway I can go back and get the system to restore the data from other three drives now that I said accept data loss?
Best Answer
What you can do is as follows:
*make sure you do not reinitialise the new raid array!
This should take you into a booting degraded raid array. From here on you can replace the failed drive and assign the ew drive as hotspare, so it can rebuild the array