PowerEdge 2800 RAID Support

razkhan · 09-26-2008, 10:22 AM

Hello folks,
I have a situation with my Dell PowerEdge 2800 Win Server 2003.
We have 6 SCSI Hard Drives into server and there were 4 partitions appearing in windows.
I pulled out two of the HDD from system and put them back again.
All HDDs are powering up but partitions are not appearing.

I went into BIOS to do Easy Configuration but a chart showed me out of 6 HDD 4 were online 2 were FAIL.

Can anyone help me with this problem without losing data from the Hard Drives? If there is a possibility of losing data incase I reconfigure RAID array, can I backup the data by somehow putting these SCSI drives into a USB reader or something?

Thanks

Raz

Codeman0013 · 09-26-2008, 10:24 AM

Try installing ITAssistant on the machine its a freeware from dell it will help you it will show you your partitions and ect.. if this is a warrantied machine i would call dell with the service tag say you want itassistant help aka open manage and they will get you someone to help you isntall and find your partitions dells are notorious for losing things like that

09-26-2008, 10:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
razkhan Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 3 OS: Win Server 2003	PowerEdge 2800 RAID Support Hello folks, I have a situation with my Dell PowerEdge 2800 Win Server 2003. We have 6 SCSI Hard Drives into server and there were 4 partitions appearing in windows. I pulled out two of the HDD from system and put them back again. All HDDs are powering up but partitions are not appearing. I went into BIOS to do Easy Configuration but a chart showed me out of 6 HDD 4 were online 2 were FAIL. Can anyone help me with this problem without losing data from the Hard Drives? If there is a possibility of losing data incase I reconfigure RAID array, can I backup the data by somehow putting these SCSI drives into a USB reader or something? Thanks Raz

09-26-2008, 10:24 AM	#2 (permalink)
Codeman0013 Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: Decatur Illinois Posts: 257 OS: Windows 7 My System	Re: PowerEdge 2800 RAID Support Try installing ITAssistant on the machine its a freeware from dell it will help you it will show you your partitions and ect.. if this is a warrantied machine i would call dell with the service tag say you want itassistant help aka open manage and they will get you someone to help you isntall and find your partitions dells are notorious for losing things like that