SAN shows as unallocated in Windows Server

Posted by Gareth Ferneyhough on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Gareth Ferneyhough
Published on 2010-06-10T21:22:21Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 21:33 UTC
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Hello. We have a SAN drive that shows as unallocated in Windows Server 2008. I believe it is a raid 10 with 4+ disks. The disks are in good health. I think a server that we rebuilt tried to connect to the drive and re-initialized them, or re-wrote the partition table. (excuse my poor terminology).

We ran TestDisk on the drive and it shows no partitions, so now we are doing a quick search (which is not so quick). Can anyone else suggest anything?

Thanks, Gareth

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