Lost My Partition?

[bluearchtop]

I have 2 IDE drives (raid mirror) and updated my mobo/cpu. I didn't realize that I couldn't just move my drives and the new raid seems to have deleted both of my partitions. I can boot in XP recovery mode and diskpart shows both drives as unpartitioned. Am i screwed? How can I get that data back?

 

[Jiggz]

Hopefully, you have not partitioned the hdd's yet or format them. You can try going back to the old mobo (if the raid controller is built into the mobo) and ran the old system again. To transfer your HDD to the new mobo or to a new raid controller, you need to move your data to a third HDD. and then recreate the raid on the new mobo and then transfer data back to the raid hdd's. If the raid controller is an add in card, then you can just move the raid controller into the new mobo with it's hdd.

 

[bluearchtop]

Hi, I have nto formatted it or repartitioned it. I was just going to try Partition Magic (going out to get it now) and hoping that could do it. But from what you are saying, it probably won't? I didn't realize moving from one RAID to another RAID would be such a production

Would this work:

Somehow get my drives back in my old system.
Ghost the data to a 3rd drive.
Get the new drives in the system and create the raid.
Format the drives.
Run Ghost to get the data back?

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: bluearchtop
Hi, I have nto formatted it or repartitioned it. I was just going to try Partition Magic (going out to get it now) and hoping that could do it. But from what you are saying, it probably won't? I didn't realize moving from one RAID to another RAID would be such a production

Would this work:

Somehow get my drives back in my old system.
Ghost the data to a 3rd drive.
Get the new drives in the system and create the raid.
Format the drives.
Run Ghost to get the data back?

yeah... the RAID setup is built into the controller (in this case, I assume your old motherboard), not the hard drives.

the only problem with ghosting the image is that Windows XP doesn't like it when you switch motherboards, and sometimes will refuse to boot. there's supposedly a fix for it, but I've never tried it for myself.

my recomendation would be to make backups of all important data, in addition to the ghosted image.

 

[bluearchtop]

Thanks. Well I think i might be screwed either way. I've got my drives back in my old computer, and the raid is detected and the status is OK, but at the point it should start booting into XP, it just hangs with a blinking cursor. What does that mean?

 

[bluearchtop]

*bump*

I really am lost. How can I get the partition back?

 

[dnuggett]

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