Recovering Missing Volumes After Restoring A Ghost Disk Image
August 6th, 2007
Experienced this problem with HP DL360 servers w/ 2-72GB disks, RAID 1.
After restoring a Windows 2003 DISK image (GHOST image) to the server, able to boot and work with drive C:. Unable to see and access drives E: and F: also thought to have been restored in the DISK image.
Solved by using DiskPart this way:
- At a command prompt, type Diskpart <enter>
- Type List Volumes <enter>
- Missing volumes are seen, but they don’t show labels or drive letter assignment
- Type Select Volume 2 <enter>
- Type Assign <enter>
- You’ll see an affirmative message.
- Type List Volumes <enter>
- Does the drive letter appear along with a volume label? Good.
- Type Select Volume 3 <enter>
- Type Assign <enter>
- You’ll see an affirmative message.
- Type List Volumes <enter>
- All drive letters appear with their volume labels?
- Type exit <enter> and close the command prompt.
- Reboot the server to verify drive letters appear normally.
