Hard drive access denied??

[Paddy]

My RAID array died again.

I have a power supply that has an intermittant conneciton somewhere. Every now and then it cuts the power to one of my RAID5 drives causing the array to degrade.

A quick wiggle of the cables sorts it out. The drives themselves are fine.
I am using RC1 of Vista and this time when the power went, Vista maked the drive as inaccessible. I have rebuilt the array and everything is fine, but Vista still wont access the drive saying 'Access Denied'

I have tried removing the RAID adaptor and reinstalling the drivers, but that hasn't helped. Any thoughts?

[Paddy]

Disk management can see the volume name and capacity and reports it as healthy.

[Paddy]

I accidentially deleted the volume
Now, I can access the drive, but not the data.


I now need to recover that. Should be straight forward enough...

[Jammrock]

Glad I could help!

[Paddy]

R-Studio is scanning the drive . . .

[Paddy]

Is there a way to recover the TOC or whatever it's called with HDs? According to M$ there is a program called DmDiag that should revcover the drive, although it is part of the 2000 toolkit and Vista won't let me install it R-Studio takes forever....

[Jammrock]

If you build a UBCD for Windows you can probably run DmDiag from there.

[Paddy]

on the case. R-studio doesn't like dynamic disks. I can see all my data, but I am having problems recovering it intact.

I am trying dmdiag now.

[Paddy]

hmm.. I cant find a copy of the dmdiag.exe. I can find it in the WinXP Resource Kit, but i can't extract the MSI in vista or BartPE.

All i need to do is to recover the boot sector and windows should do the rest. Anyone know of any third party programs that will do this?