Topic: RAID, backup drive fried, only one mirror member left. Only boots to grub

[rshiras]

A power surge knocked out my backup drive and one of my RAID drives.  My server also fried.  So I'm going from PATA to SATA.  I have made a clone from the PATA to a SATA drive, and tried all kinds of tricks from posts (thanks for these), but to no avail.  The original drive will not boot.  OK so no pre-backup.  Won't boot, goes to Grub.  Tried grub.  Tried renaming .img and mkinitrd.  Tried removing lines from grub.conf. Tried F5 rescue.
OK so I got a new PC and installed SME 8.0 on it and set up RAID. 
Question: can I recover users, ibays, virtual domains, MySQL and all other user data from the old drive?  Are there new methods in 8.0 that I might not have discovered yet?  I'm trying to RTFM, but some links or tips would be greatly appreciated right now.  No sleep for me until this gets done.

[rshiras]

Uh-oh...My RAID was set up automatically as SDB and SDA.  I added my old drive to try to see what data is on there, and RAID automatiaclly switched to SDC and SDB!  Why did it do that?  Has it wiped out my old data?  What's the proper way to get my stuff off the old drive?

[TerryF]

I take it then the old system was a 7.6 or 7.5.1?
Did you try the old drive by itself and using a SME CD try disaster recovery?

or is there no system avail to put the old drive in?

[rshiras]

No replies from the 8 forum so moved here (again).

[rshiras]

Yes, TerryF, I tried the 7.5 CD disaster recovery and that didn't work either.

[TerryF]

Sorry, bad wording I was refering to using rescue mode from the CD..at least you will know if you are able to access the drive and if lucky the filesystem.

[janet]

rshiras

No replies from the 8 forum so moved here (again).

Please do not do that, it confuses those trying to help you & scatters the information in different forums.
Just post in one forum & WAIT for answers.