Recover Data

[Ayman Altounji]

I am trying to recover data from a 18.1GB hot-pluggable (not containing the boot volume) and configured as a single harddrive (no RAID). The drive was pulled off of a CL380 shared storage unit. Is it possible to place this into a DL380 as an additional physical drive, set it to RAID0, and recover the data? I have not done this because I am concerned the data will become unretrievable. Any ideas on the best method of recovery?

[Ayman Altounji]

You will not be able to attach the drive to a Smart Array controller. The cr3500 writes completely different.
Is the system clustered? If it is, to see the data to back it up, you will have to stop the cluster service and the cluster disk driver. If os is NT4, set the cluster service to manual in services and set the cluster disk drive to diabled in devices. If os is 2000, set the cluster service to manual in services. To disable cluster disk, goto device manager. Select the view drop down and view all hidden devices. Select non-plug and play devices. Under that section you will see cluster disk. Set it to disable. After doing both steps in either os, reboot the machine. After the reboot, you should be able to access data on the drive.

[Elabro]

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