Windows Server 2012 R2 Raid transfer?

[L.E.D]

Hey guys, long time no see ahah

 

Recently my home file 'server' shit the bed, running Windows Server 2012 R2 and a software raid.. i know blast me later about it.. After a good storm and a couple power flickers it no longer boots at all, just sits at the windows loading screen. It's been a long time since I have dealt with this I have no idea what to do, so I was wondering if it is at all possible to physically transfer the drives into my desktop and recreate the raid and still have all the data, if not I was wondering if someone would give me a hand in diagnosing this no boot situation.

 

Thanks for any help! Cheers! 

[LogicalDrm]

 - Moved to Servers and NAS -

[BloodKnight7]

Have you tried booting your server in safe mode?

[Jarsky]

You need to know how you created your RAID, if you used the Windows Server native tools, you either created it in Disk Management or Storage Spaces. 

You can move the disks to another computer and import the RAID / Storage Pool, but there are limitations between Windows 10 & Server. 

 

If its Windows 10 Pro im pretty sure you can import a standard RAID5 in Disk Management just fine. 

I'm not sure if you can import a storage pool from Server 2012 to Windows 10 - need someone with more Storage Spaces experience to answer that. 

 

Of course your best bet, is to try booting your Windows Server into Safe mode and recover it. If you can boot into safe mode then you should be able to check the events to see what its complaining about on start up. If its just stuck (not in a reboot loop) you might also try unplugging the network cable during boot to see if this makes a difference. 

 

You might also boot it into the recovery console and run a SFC and try a boot repair if necessary. You could also look into repairing the health using DISM. 

 

If you get really stuck and have little to no app's installed, and nothing crucial on the OS drive then i'd even just unplug the storage disks and do a rebuild, then reconnect the disks and import the storage pool or RAID. It could be faster than trying to go through all the repair steps

[NelizMastr]

Just to add my two cents here, it's common in servers to have the boot drive separated from the data volume. I'm assuming you've installed everything on one big volume?

 

If they are on separate disks/volumes, I'd grab a random harddisk, slap a copy of Windows Server on it and try to read or repair the data volume from there.