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---------- New Disk Signature, loose data??

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thatsright

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I have a SCSI disk drive that was part of a mirror RAID1 set on our Windows 2000 Server. Well I rebooted the other day, and the Raid system marks it as ?Failed.? The drive is only 8 months old, so I don't buy that its really ?failed. I put the drive in an old Dell Power Edge 2300. And the RAID controller picks it up fine. So I activate it, and boot into NT 4.0 server.

It asks if I want to write a Disk Signature to the drive. Should I? I?m worried if I do this, it will wipe out the MBR and/or Data from the Windows 2000 server setup. Is there a risk doing this? I just want to see if the data is still there from the Win2000 server.
 
The disk signature is just a few bytes of data lumped after your MBR boot code and just before your partition table.


It's a harmless operation. The only oddity that can come from it is if you change the signature on an existing system. The signature is noted in the mounteddevices key in the registry and if it changes windows may detect it as a new (different) disk. This is harmless in most situations. In all situations the data itself is perfectly safe.
 
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