Disk1 Offline

[xbox1835]

I have just upgraded my windows 2000 standrad server to windows 2003 SBS (Premium edt). Upgrade went fine without any glitches but now when I go into Disk Managment I see my Disk1 being offline. Disk0 where my O/S is ok and it is a Basic the second hard drive Disk1 (shows being dynamic) is offline where all the data is.

Now I have tried to bring this disk1 online within windows by right clicking on it. That didn't work. I also used diskpart command and select disk1 to bring online that didn't work either.

I would appreciate any help.

TIA

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

Was Disk 0 and Disk 1 part of a mirror (RAID1) configuration (managed by the OS) before your upgrade? Or are you running HW RAID or No RAID at all?

 

[xbox1835]

Call me dumb. But before upgrade I have not checked if it was setup as Raid or not. But there is no hardware RAID that I know. Right now configuration looks like this

DISK0 C: Basic

DISK1 (it was F: drive): Dynamic < this one shows offline.


TIA

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

Looks like there was no redundancy on the server so I am puzzled why it would show up as dynamic?(unless it was set up dynamic and never configured for redundancy) Do you know what type of data was on Disk 1? You could revert it from Dynamic back to Basic and then see if you can access the drive. If you have a backup of the data you could also reformat the drive and restore should you run into any problems reverting.

 

[xbox1835]

Well I was trying to avoid to format that drive. It does give me an option to convert back to basic but warns me that I would loose the data. Data was basically consists of data files (word, excel, access..etc). Now I am not sure the previous admin had these 2 drives setup as Raid1 or setup both as dynamic or what. If all else fails then I have to format.

Thanks for your help

 

[Dmasch]

if you convert back to basic you will lose all data on that