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FAILED RAID Drives

Hi Experts,

I have a server that is configured for RAID 5 . Today I noticed that one of the drives were flashing amber.

I was able to rebuilt the failed drive by reseating it.

Now when I try to re-boot the server to Windows, I am getting this error message:

File:\Windows\System32\Windows.exe

The server will not boot up into windows. Any ideas on how to fix this issue if possible?

I am running a Dell PowerEdge with server 2008 as the OS.

Thanks

Teavana

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The Error Code is: 0XC0000221

Seth Simmons

what model power edge and what controller are we working with here?

David

You have at least partial data loss. When you reseated the array, for all you know you forced a drive with stale data online. Or you had unreadable files, or lots of other things ... but it is all moot.

At this point treat it as if you do not have a RAID system at all and do a windows recovery. (Be sure to load the drivers for the RAID controller on startup, if they are not already there).

Nothing you can do to the raid is going to repair filesystem damage. If the raid is healthy then now you have to deal with the corrupted files/filesystem.

Sorry.

Teavana

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dlethe,

Thank you for responding. I tried doing a Windows recovery but its all a no go....

I guess, I will have to do a re-built from scratch.... :-(

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Teavana

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Thank you for your help, I appreciate it. I guess I learn the hard way for this one...