Akirhol is right, a parallel install, meaning install windows server into a directory other than the default, then copy, or backup the data.
Format and install for real, and restore date onto good hardware.
Good Luck,
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Browse All TopicsI am trying to recover the contents of a HP SmartArray P400 disk array, specificly the data that was on the disk at the time it went down. The windows install on the server has failed, I want to take a backup of the data as it existed when windows died.
Through recovery console I can access the array and traverse the directories, however the copy function is not functional enough to copy the data to an external drive. I have tried BartPE, however I can not get the driver for the array to load.
Any ideas on how to get the data off the box?
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by: akirholPosted on 2008-06-04 at 10:11:23ID: 21712048
As long as the array is functional, which it sounds like it is, you can try a parallel windows installation to an alternate directory. You could also try any number of linux live distros that have native NTFS support. I believe Knoppix has such support.