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Old 01-13-2010, 12:24 AM
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Your best chance would probably be to use a live cd like Ubuntu or something that supports your RAID controller, and at the same time having your backup drive connected directly to the motherboard and not the RAID controller. Using the live CD you could then copy the files accross without worry that the OS you are in is corrupt in any manner.

But I'd double check your RAID configuration as it is. I'd assume you've already had a failure since RAID5 requires a minimum of 3 drives to run/be configured at the beginning, and if it's reporting 2... sounds like a failure already.

Issues with NTLDR, NTOSKRNL, etc, generally are symptom of corrupting partitions/drives or (obviously) failures. If you keep track of which ones specifically it is complaining about, it could be possible to fix the issues using the recovery console in the Windows Install disks. The repair would basically be replacing the corrupted files with the originals from the disk and you should be able to boot and relogin to the system.
Here is the Microsoft support page on how to replace files like ntoskrnl. While it says Windows XP, it still applies to Win2003.
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