My company has a remote site with an old 250mhz, 166Mb Ram NT4 PDC. It has 2 6gb IDE drives setup in a Master/Slave configuration with each divided into 3 2gb parts..
Today the server crashed. Nobody has backed this thing up in awhile (a few months I believe)
Trying to repair the machine; looks like the C: partition is damaged. (OS only) I can't install to the partition and I can't format it. The other partitions all show up during the install with their respective details and look ok. My hunch is they are still alright.
So how can I get the data back off of this machine? Is there a way? I'm wondering if I put in a new IDE drive, format it and do a fresh install, can I then daisy cahin each of the other two drives on one at a time and be able to see the information stored on the NTFS parts? Would that work? If so, I can copy the info onto the new larger IDE drive and have it ready to transfer to the new server. (There is a new 2.4ghz 1gb Ram W2K server sitting on the floor next to this one that was scheduled to replace the old one in just a couple weeks... but the old one gave up to soon. :-( )
Any other thoughts on how I might have a chance of retrieving the data??
Today the server crashed. Nobody has backed this thing up in awhile (a few months I believe)
Trying to repair the machine; looks like the C: partition is damaged. (OS only) I can't install to the partition and I can't format it. The other partitions all show up during the install with their respective details and look ok. My hunch is they are still alright.
So how can I get the data back off of this machine? Is there a way? I'm wondering if I put in a new IDE drive, format it and do a fresh install, can I then daisy cahin each of the other two drives on one at a time and be able to see the information stored on the NTFS parts? Would that work? If so, I can copy the info onto the new larger IDE drive and have it ready to transfer to the new server. (There is a new 2.4ghz 1gb Ram W2K server sitting on the floor next to this one that was scheduled to replace the old one in just a couple weeks... but the old one gave up to soon. :-( )
Any other thoughts on how I might have a chance of retrieving the data??
