VITUAL DRIVE

[BigSummo]

Hi there I have a Dell powerEdge 610 server which I use for my backup stuff.

 

Newbei here ( sorry )

 

I had to re-install Windows server data center 2019 

 

I now can not access the second raid virtual hard disk

 

when I go to computer Managment the drive is there but it says it needs formatting …..

 

how can I make the drive available without formatting..

[Needfuldoer]

Is the logical RAID volume still there in the PERC BIOS?

[BigSummo]

2 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Is the logical RAID volume still there in the PERC BIOS?

 
the RAID volume is online in the PERC BIOS

[Electronics Wizardy]

What format does diskmgmt say the volume is? 

What filesystem was it formattted as earlier?

 

Id reformat and restore backups of the data.

[BigSummo]

16 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What format does diskmgmt say the volume is? 

What filesystem was it formattted as earlier?

 

Id reformat and restore backups of the data.

the first format was NTFS 

see pictures for diskmgmt. (Disk1)

Don’t know about the last part ?

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, BigSummo said:

the first format was NTFS 

see pictures for diskmgmt. (Disk1)

Don’t know about the last part ?

 

Is there data you care about on this partition? If so Id send it off to a pro for data recovery, otherwise, use something like ddrescue to make a image of the drive, then try seeing if there is ntfs data on it with testdisk.

 

Otherwise if its just backup data, Id just formate the drive and use it.