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I was eager to get the data off these drives, so that's why I just popped them into an HP server after getting a bad tip. Now unfortunately I think even if I bought the replacement riser card for my 1850 (which I will likely do anyway) it won't recognize them as a Dell array since the HP Smart...

I booted with SystemRescueCD (Linux distro) and it wasn't seeing any data, it was just showing it as unallocated space. When I insert the 2nd drive it doesn't even present itself to the OS. The only way I was able to get the 1st drive to present itself was to initialize it with the HP Smart...

I can try this with the 2nd hard drive. But the problem is Windows can't even see the drive until I initialize it with HP's Smart Array which I fear is overwriting the data.

Here are some screenshots of what I'm seeing. I inserted the 2nd Dell drive. So you can see the HP Smart Array is only seeing 2 Logical Drives. I have the option to create a logical drive from this disk. I can see the 2 other logical drives, my 150gb Hitachi and the 70gb HP. 1...

Hi guys, thanks for all the support... Here is where I'm at. The server guys at work are letting me use a DL580 to test with. I took a bare HP drive and installed Windows 2003 on it. Then I inserted 1 of my "Dell" drives (after putting it in the HP hot swap bracket) and Windows was not...

Ok cool, this is making me feel a bit more hopeful! So do you think the HP RAID initialization could zap the drive's index? Or is that something completely different? Should I go back to work and just try putting 1 of the drives in the HP and see what happens? For some reason I thought I...

Hello. I have a Dell PowerEdge 1850 that suffered a failed raid controller (Perc 4e) and I wanted to get the data off this RAID-1 array quickly. I asked someone at work on our server team and he said it "might" work if I insert these into an HP Proliant server, it might recognize the array...

Ya my server is Linux (CentOS) and my desktop/laptop are Win2k3/Windows XP. So whatever I use needs to work across those platforms.

What about this: Have my desktop PC "upload" and sync all my documents to my web server (which has a static IP address, located at a proper data center) and then when I login to my laptop "download" and sync all documents to it. Is there any solution that does this type of synchronization...

Hi there. I am planning to set up my home desktop with a RAID-1 configuration using two 250GB drives for storing important documents, and then Windows 2003 Server will run on a separate 60GB disk. I do not want to store any important information on my laptop for security and reliability...