Corrupted Exchange Disk

[rstainforth]

Hi all,

We recently had a system failure on our Exchange server, which we have managed to get back up and running, but when the server restarted the RAID mirror was broken. I created a global hot spare, remirrored the RAID, and removed the failed disk for testing.

I have set up an identical chassis in our lab (an intel SR2300), and when I inserted the disk it failed to boot. It gets as far as the O/S selection, then reboots after selection. I can't boot into safe mode, or use the last known good.

I used the recovery console to run chkdsk (with /p) which tells me the disk is OK, and also used the onboard scsi utilities to verify the media, which ran ok.

So, next step was to try and run a repair installation from the Server 2003 cd, however when it loads into the text portion of the install, and asks me to select the partition for install etc there is no option for a repair, only to format, delete partition etc.

Can anybody shed some light on this for me i.e. can I perform a repair some other way, or what might be causing this? I think that the data on the disk is corrupted, but I would really like to get into it and have a look at whats been going on!

[allen2]

Give us more informations if you want help. Like which os and what is the error you get when you're trying to boot, does the lab comp and the production computer are the same kind, etc .... ?

Anyway a fast solution may be to simply boot to a bartpe CD or erd commander CD and then look at the data.

Edited August 19, 2006 by allen2