Recovering Win2000 Mirrored volume

[FrankSchwab]

Ok, so lightning hit the other day, and among other things took out my Windows 2000 Server home server. Opened up the machine, and found the (I think) southbridge with a crater blown out of it. This machine is never gonna boot again.

I moved the pair of 120GB drives out of it onto my Windows 2000 Pro workstation. The 120's had been configured with a 4 GB Mirrored System partition, a 10 GB Mirrored data partition, and the rest was two independent, about 100 GB scratch volumes. No, I don't have an ERD with this disk configuration on it.

My Windows 2000 Pro mounted the drives fine; and the two scratch volumes were accessible. The two mirrored volumes were marked "Failed". I have been unsuccessful at getting at the data on these volumes; anyone have any help?

Thanks,

/frank

 

[aceman817]

Take a look at the data recovery options at Ontrack.com and Runtime.org. I've had good luck in the past retrieving data with both of these companies software products.

 

[redbeard1]

I'm pretty sure that you will need a MS server OS to be able to import the mirrors, since 2000 pro and XP do not natively support MS OS mirroring.