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If its a software RAID drive then you have to move all the raid drives to the other machine to malke the data usable.<br />
Time to get your backup out !!
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If its a software RAID drive then you have to move all the raid drives to the other machine to malke the data usable.
Time to get your backup out !!

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perhaps the original windows installation created the software array with an identification tag that is not recognized by another windows installation.
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perhaps the original windows installation created the software array with an identification tag that is not recognized by another windows installation.

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Thanks, I have not yet tried moving both drives to another machine. &nbsp; That can be done. &nbsp;The primary drive is not dead, just has some corrupt files that cause it not to boot.
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Thanks, I have not yet tried moving both drives to another machine.   That can be done.  The primary drive is not dead, just has some corrupt files that cause it not to boot.

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When you say RAID, which raid is it. I assume its RAID 0 (stripped volume), while this version of raid makes i/o operations a bit faster there is no fault tollerance - if one disk fails you lose the lot.<br />
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You say the drive is not dead, but SMART errors are not a sign of good health. I do hope you have a backup.
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When you say RAID, which raid is it. I assume its RAID 0 (stripped volume), while this version of raid makes i/o operations a bit faster there is no fault tollerance - if one disk fails you lose the lot.

You say the drive is not dead, but SMART errors are not a sign of good health. I do hope you have a backup.

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I have a dead Windows 2000 Server with a software RAID. &nbsp;Received SMART Errors on primary drive, and then blue screens on boot. &nbsp;Drives can be pulled and seen in another computer via USB cable, but when I activate disk, all I see is &quot;failed&quot; &nbsp;<br />
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Any ideas, &nbsp;your help is greatly appreciated.
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I have a dead Windows 2000 Server with a software RAID.  Received SMART Errors on primary drive, and then blue screens on boot.  Drives can be pulled and seen in another computer via USB cable, but when I activate disk, all I see is "failed"  

Any ideas,  your help is greatly appreciated.

Dead Windows 2000 SErver with software RAID

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

RAID is data storage technology that allows multiple drives to be used together as a single virtual drive for reasons such as fault tolerance, reliability and performance. 

There are several different levels of RAID that determine how the data is stored and the level of redundancy achieved across the drives.