Drive Status Unreadable

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CaseyBlackburn

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One of my servers has been having some issues lately. The server has two hard drives in it. The server has been starting and when it gets to the Windows 2003 boot screen with the scrolling bar, it does that for a long time then goes to the BIOS boot screen. If I go into the Recovery Console on the Setup disk it doesn't see the disk. SMART status shows everything is fine. I installed the two drives as spares in another computer. Computer Management panel shows they have the status of Unreadable. The disks are setup as Dynamic Disks by the way and are IDE drives. I downloaded the Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools and it shows everything is fine with them. I need some way to run checkdisk on the drives or something, I just need the drives to work, or at least work enough so I can get data off. Someone please help.
 
Nevermind, I fixed it, I had to use a certain utility, which the name currently escapes me. The utility found all the partitions on the drives, and then I had it rebuild to MBR boot sector and the partition table and then everything booted up just fine. I'll post the name of the tool later on when I get back to my home.
 
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