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Posted April 21st, 2021 08:00
Taifunn,
How was the server booting previously, was it from a raid controller and drives? If so, are you currently able to access the raid controller? If you are able to, what are you seeing for Virtual Disk status, as well as the Physical Disks status?
Also, are you seeing any other errors displayed?
Let me know what you see.
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Posted April 21st, 2021 11:00
By the way, I m able to connect to server over IDRAC. I can give remote access to someone who can support me in this case. Since this was our main backup server, it is very important for me.4295
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Posted April 21st, 2021 11:00
Hi camilasaunder89, I tried but it was not successful. I already unplugged all cables and bring server from company to my home. There was no electric for 3 hours.
Hi Chris. Yes, it was from controller. here are the some photos from contoller and settings:4270
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Posted April 21st, 2021 13:00
Hi Chris,
In fact, I am not sure about that. Former IT guy installed this server and I didnt check this before. What will happen if i import the foreign on that VD? is there any probability of losing data?4249
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Posted April 21st, 2021 14:00
I also see below message when I changed the boot mode from UEFI to BIOS:
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Posted April 21st, 2021 14:00
Hello again,
I started the system with bootable OS from flash drive and I checked the disk management.
I see only one disk (disk0) with two part. please see the screenshot:
I also checked the files and there is no any windows OS related folders/files in disk 0. It is weird. There are only our own files which we backed up regularly until today.
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Posted April 21st, 2021 18:00
Hi,
You may need to check if the OS partition if it's MBR or GPT, that will determine if the system need to be in BIOS or UEFI mode. If it's MBR, that will be BIOS. The RAID controller still detects there is foreign configuration. You may need to import foreign. Just make sure that, no disk have been swapped between slots before you do import foreign. There is no data lost from import foreign if done correctly.
Let me know if you have any questions.
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Posted April 21st, 2021 20:00
Can you share the picture of virtual disk menu on controller BIOS. Looking at the pictures shared drives under VD0 (RAID 1) are shown as foreign and the operating system may be installed on those drives. You can try importing the foreign config which can bring VD0 online. Importing foreign config will not have any data lost. After import foreign config VD0 will be coming online if there are no other failure introduced on drives during power outage.
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Posted April 22nd, 2021 00:00
Hi all,
I recorded video so you can see settings and boot error. Sorry for the bad quality.
Here is the video: https://youtu.be/F8-GIjAda-k
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Posted April 21st, 2021 13:00
Thank you for those details. Would you confirm if the OS is on the Raid 1 (VD0) or if it is on the Raid 6 (VD1)? If the OS is on the Raid 1, then it looks like the drives are in a Foreign state, and with it not booting you may need to Import the Foreign on that VD.
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