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Win 2000 Recovery Op. Please Help!

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GilletteCat

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In my raid i used striping (0):| between 2 drives. I thought they would never fail 😱, but I'll get increased performance. I got performance... for a while. One of the drives has failed, and I need to recover as much data as possible. I really, do! The boot sector and MBR are fine, the system goes past the white "system identification and loading" screen, gets all the blue squares filled, and then bluescreens with a message "... could not load windows registry hive (file) SystemRoot\System32\Config\Software"
I went trough the standard road of recovery, loaded from floppies and went to "Console" method. I can see the above Software file perfectly intact. The CHKDSK hung on 2%, so I could not do any repair that way. I tried going the "Repair" route but it needs the Emergency Repair Disk, which I, obviously, do not have.:|
People! Please if you know how to recover the registry hive or any other recovery utility for my situation, do let me know. I am desperate! It is a database server and a small development web server. Both drives work, not all the time though 🙁 So, I need to make it boot only once, so I can dump the databases and backup some work-in-progress files.
Very Important!
Thanks ahead!
BTW, the OS is Win 2000 Adv. Server.
 
I'm just shooting in the dark here, but I think a restore from backup of some sort is the only recovery since 1/2 of each file is on each drive. If one drive failed then the entire file is corrupted. 🙁
 
I was able to partially fix this problem and get to my data, see your other thread for answer. Thank me later 🙂
 
Even though I thanked you in the other thread, but I'd like to do it again. NicColt, you saved my a$$ big time. Thanks a lot!

I have a question regarding recovering SQLServer data transformation packages in that thread. If anyone knows anything, I'd appreciate your input.

Thanks.
 
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