[WBEL-users] steps to help recover data from a crashed system? (boot drive crashed, need to get data from data drive)

[Scott Silva]

Dale Lists spake the following on 2/12/2006 1:52 PM:
> Whitebox 3
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a server that has 2 hot swap SCSI drives on it. When trying to
> boot I now get a 'parity error' when the drive tries to load. I have
> gotten a replacement drive, but need to be careful as to what steps to
> take next so as to not mess up the data on the second drive. The second
> drive was basically my /varr directory. I do not have a machine
> available where I could just put this good drive into, which is why I
> bought a new drive and am looking at installing the OS onto the new one
> to somehow pull the data off the old drive.
> 
> I am not sure if I can get/create a CD that I can bot from to copy the
> data from the god drive to someplace else or should I format this new
> drive and install whitebox on it then somehow mount the other drive and
> copy the data over.
> 
> If I boot with the /var drive , I get a GRUB prompt on the screen - not
> sure if there is anything I can do with this or not, my main concern is
> saving the data on that drive.
> 
> My goal, once I get the data off the drive in a safe place, is to
> re-format everything (trash the bad drive) and set the system back up
> with RAID 0.
> 
> Thanks for any help/suggestions.
> 
> Dale
Is this a raid array? Or just 2 drives?
It makes a difference on what you might recover, and how easy it will be (or
difficult).



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