On Thursday 11 May 2006 18:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a situation where one of the people working an investigation > attempted to turn on a computer and a static shock arced through the on-off > switch. The PC would not recognize any of the RAID drives inside. I pulled > the CMOS battery and unplugged, then the BIOS found the drives but I'm > guessing the MBR is bad or something because it detects the drives, but is > unable to find the OS.
very weird... EMP by powerbutton :) > I need to recover some data from the RAID 0 set. What would the best method > be to do this and would it be likely that I can recover the MBR to boot the > system? i doubt you know what you're saying, but here goes: the first sector of your disk is 512 bytes the first 446 are MBR, the next 64 are primary partition table so, to recover your MBR (what you asked): just get your primary partition table right, boot with grub, and start your system by selecting the correct partition to boot from. you can't raid0 your MBR and primary partition table (afaik) (why would you even want that, you'd want to raid1 it or so :)) anyway, this way, you get your requested MBR fixed -- harry aka Rik Bobbaers K.U.Leuven - LUDIT -=- Tel: +32 485 52 71 50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=- http://harry.ulyssis.org "Work hard and do your best, it'll make it easier for the rest" -- Garfield Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
