Seagate Barracuda Weirdness

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Ok, it's a Seagate 80 GB (Barracuda)
from a Dell poweredge server - Win2K3 SBS
It's IDE and was mirrored to an identical Seagate 80GB
It was partitioned as (probably) 12GB C: and 60 Whatever D:
System went down booting started a chkdsk routine. Lots of errors and I
think, truncated files And it just restarts over and over
Pull the drive.
Slave it in another system (WinXP Pro, SP2)
D: (data) intact and copied off
C: reports as 1GB partition with 1GB free
However, all data look intact
If I select all files on the drive and do properties, it reports as 37,484
files using 5.47 GB
(The size is low - should be almost double)
Was able to copy data from the C: drive (Exchange DB)

And, I said it's mirrored
The mirror looks the same!

Any ideas on this one?

Bizarre....

Thanks,
JohnS
 
Homer said:
Ok, it's a Seagate 80 GB (Barracuda)
from a Dell poweredge server - Win2K3 SBS
It's IDE and was mirrored to an identical Seagate 80GB
It was partitioned as (probably) 12GB C: and 60 Whatever D:
System went down booting started a chkdsk routine. Lots of errors and
I think, truncated files And it just restarts over and over
Pull the drive.
Slave it in another system (WinXP Pro, SP2)
D: (data) intact and copied off
C: reports as 1GB partition with 1GB free
However, all data look intact
If I select all files on the drive and do properties, it reports as
37,484 files using 5.47 GB
(The size is low - should be almost double)
Was able to copy data from the C: drive (Exchange DB)

And, I said it's mirrored
The mirror looks the same!

Any ideas on this one?
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Try something like Easy Recovery Pro and see what it makes of it.

Likely the partition table entry for the first partition has got screwed values wise.
 
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