Ping J. Clarke

Just thought I let you know I think you are on the right track
with the Raid 5 "new hardware" issue,if you recall.For example,I just
ghosted and installed replacement drives from Maxtor on a single workstation
,exact
model Maxtor,and when I fired up ,XP went through it's little install thing
of "found new drive".It worked fine saying yes yes...to the install of the
disk,unlike the server,but I feel that this triggering of "found new
hardware" demonstrates your theory of my raid 5 array being recognized
as "new" hardware,even though it is exactly the same make and model of
drive,only the serial is different.I now agree with you,that win2k server
does a serial check of the drive,actuating a security feature of some
sort,makng it impossible to log on to the restored system.I will try the
instructions on the link you gave me and try again,I'll post results.Thanks
for the pointer,yeah I resisted but I bet you are correct,Adysthemic