Core Data Recovery

Dell Poweredge SC420

I thought I might write some generic instructions that might be helpful if anyone attempts this on their own.

Here are the steps:

1. With the computer off, mount all hardware ( in this case 2 500 Gigabyte Seagate Sata Drives)
2. Boot the computer and press F2 to enter the Bios.
3. under drive controllers, set the RAID to ON.
4. Esc key and save & exit
5. Press Ctrl-A on boot to enter the Adaptec Raid Controller Software.
6. Select the two appropriate drives and then,
7. Create a RAID array (RAID = Redundant Array of Independent Disks.)
8. Select Mirrored (Writes to both hard disks at the same time for redundancy)
9. Select yes, Ok and your raid array will build.
10. Reboot and insert the Dell System manager disks and install your server software.

Hope this helps any techies listening getting the raid configured and setup correctly.

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