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Can't see my SATA drives

Last post 09-26-2008 10:31 PM by FTTester. 2 replies.
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  • 09-25-2008 8:20 PM

    • amock
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    Can't see my SATA drives

    The boot drive of my home PC has died.  It is an IDE drive.  I also have two SATA drives in the system which have the backup of the boot drive on them.  This is a machine that was given to me by someone who used to be in software development, so it is running Windows 2000 Advanced Server, but I just use it as a regular home PC.  I think the SATA drives are "linked" somehow because they look like one big drive from windows.  I have added a third SATA drive to the system to replace the IDE drive that crashed.  When I bring up the recovery environment from a CD, I can see the new SATA drive, but I can't see the two older SATA drives.  What am I doing wrong?  I'm hoping I don't need the server version of shadow protect just because the operating system is Windows 2000 Advanced Server.  As I mentioned, I am just using this for my home PC and not as a server, and certainly can't afford the server version of shadow protect.   Thx in advance.

  • 09-26-2008 5:40 AM In reply to

    • amock
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    Re: Can't see my SATA drives

     One other thing I forgot to mention - the two original SATA drives and the new SATA drive are all on the same controller card.

  • 09-26-2008 10:31 PM In reply to

    Re: Can't see my SATA drives

    They probably configured the 2 original SATA drives as a dynamic disk with software RAID-0. To have any chance to see the disk in the recovery environment, you'll have to find and load the appropriate driver. I don't know if the OS has a different driver for the IDE and SATA ports - my guess is that it will considering the SATA ports are on a separate card. In other words you will need to use HIR during a restore. Unfortunately you can't do that with an OS that did not have ShadowProtect installed on it prior to the backup. 

    Try to find and load a driver so you can see the original 2 SATA drives in the recovery environment. Then try a restore to the new SATA driver without using HIR. My guess is that it won't boot. If that happens you'd be better of plugging an IDE drive and restoring to that. 

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