I have Dell Poweredge server 2600 with Raid 5 in 3 hard drive Scsi 36gb each, it was fail to boot sinc the third drive is offline.
I attached Sata card adapter to Sata hard drive and install OS SERVER 2003 to it, downloaded drivers for Raid and everything goes fine when I use recovery data software called "GetDataBack" from here http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm but the problem that not all data recovered, I am still looking for importants data with about 5 GB size.
I have another software called "RAID Reconstructor" from "http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm" I thought if I run it to reconstruct that will help to recover more data and put the third drive to be Online but I am afraid that might erase the current data in the other drives.
Please I need your advise in how I could retrive the remaining data? Thanks
Best Answer
Here are the steps to re-tag a failed raid5:
If re-tagging fails, you're better off taking the disk set to a lab.
If it succeeds, you should boot the system, back it up, and then update the controller and hdd firmware. it is possible that the faulty drive is OK, and it went offline because of a firmware bug, and an update might fix it.
After the update, insert the faulty drive and try to rebuild, if rebuild fails - replace the drive.
You can also run a DST test on the drive to make sure it is usable