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Goyuix
Asked: 2010-01-27 07:38:04 +0800 CST

Windows 7 Mount Software RAID 5 array

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I have a server that died, though the drives appears fine. There are four of them, with a 10GB mirrored volume for the boot, and the rest as a RAID5 array spread across the four drives. When I connect them to my windows 7 box, I can import the foreign drives, and even browse/rebuild the mirrored volume, but it won't seem to touch the RAID5 volume.

Is this a limitation of Windows 7? Do I need to attach them to a box that has Windows Server installed to recover the data?

Update: The drives are software RAID managed by windows.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This is a limitation of Windows 7. Only Windows Server versions support RAID-5 volumes.

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  2. You will need to have the same controller that was managing the RAID5 installed in the Win7 box. From what I can understand by your post, just plugging in RAID5 set to a machine without a RAID controller is going to get you nowhere.

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