Re: FW: [cobalt-users] Raq550 recovery HELP !!

["John D. Gorena" <Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

What the Raq550 does is preset the harddrive to begin/end on each of the
partitions.  If there is data there in the NTFS format, it will then use
it.  It appears to do this reset on partitions on both drives -
everytime.  It will sink from the good to the new no matter if it is
drive 1 or drive 2.  The key is that one has to be blank.

Therefore to prevent an accidental restore from bad data:
1) Delete all partitions
2) create a DOS partition
3) Reformat drive
4) Delete partition
5) Insert blank hard drive with no partitions in the Raq550 as the new
drive
6) Turn it on and wait until reboot completes.


I do not know how it will react with a Win200 machine.  If you are
trying to recover data, then I suggest a Linux Based machine.  I used a
SUSE Linux Machine and was able to view the partitions after I mounted
them.  Then I cleaned the hard drive with the steps above.

John



Bob Lenaerts wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Thank you for this info.
> SO if I put a second HDD from a new raq550 (not powerd on yet) into my
> win2000 machine, and remove all the partitions with fdisk, and reformat
> it with (fat or ntfs), then put it in a online UP TO DATE raq550.
> Set the switches off the formatted disk to slave, and the good HDD to
> master.
> 
> Is it then possible that the raq550 (old) with the good HDD in, sync
> from 1 to 2 and NOT from 2 to 1 ?
> 
> Kindest regards
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John D. Gorena
> Sent: maandag 4 augustus 2003 15:13
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Raq550 recovery HELP !!
> 
> Bob,
> 
> 1) You cannot put a used Hard drive in a Raq550 without cleaning it
> first.  Before you can put another hard drive in a Raq550 that uses
> Raid, the new hard drive must be FDISK-ed to delete all the partitions
> and then completely re-FORMAT to remove any data, then remove the
> partition with FDISK.  This is like a NEW hard drive that has nothing on
> it.  The RAQ550 will create the partitions and add the data.  NOTE:
> FDISK alone does not work because the data is there.  I have to reformat
> the whole drive as one partition (win98) then remove the partition
> before installing.
> 
> 2) You can use a Linux Based PC and mount the partitions.  Remember that
> there are 4 partitions on the Raq550 Hard Drive.
> 
> John