Need to access a single "mirrored" drive on another PC.

[Rob00GT]

OK, I think I screwed up and need help. On my "old" server I had my critical files stored on a pair of MIRRORED hard drives using Windows dynamic volumes. When I built my new server I made backups of all files, or so I thought. Anyway, after the new server was finished everything seemed to be fine so one of the old MIRRORED drives was reused in another computer. Not one hour after I did this my wife pointed out that pictures of our daughters from July-November 2005 are missing. Looks like there's one folder I forgot to back up before the server move.

So now I've got one hard drive (half of the mirrored array) that's untouched and still has the data on it. How do I get the data off of it? According to the Windows help files a dynamic RAID 1 volume may be transferred to another pc only if all drives are moved at the same time. Since one of the drives has been formatted and reused I don't have both dynamic volumes.

Any suggestions?

[cluberti]

I think you've answered your own question - at least partially. You can still access those files (they are there on the disk), but you'll need a third-party tool that can read from the disk apart from the file system. Most system recovery CD's floating around on the 'net can do things such as this, and there are commercial products out there that can do this sort of thing as well (my favorite is NTFSDOS professional (from the Winternals' Adminpak, http://www.winternals.com/Products/AdministratorsPak/).