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Make a 1 to 1 copy of a virtual disk with incomplete status

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i have an incomplete virtual disk with a thin mirror configuration and the NumberOfColumns at four and the NumberOfDataCopies at 2.

there are some data on the volume on this virtual disk that I need to recover and so far I had no luck with it.

this started when one of the eight hard drive in the storage pool went south, and was promptly replaced.

the replacement sequence was to add an equivalent drive to the storage pool and then remove the faulty drive and repair the virtual drive.

for reasons that are not clear, the system lost communication with one of the other drives in storage pool before the repair could finish.

i have left the storage pool with this virtual drive alone since then in fear of further scrambling it, if that is even possible by now!

the thought i had as a means of attempting to recover the data was to cone the virtual drive to a physical drive in a 1 to 1 copy using a cloning tool.

the cloning tool that use and depend on is Symantec's Ghost and I usually run this via WinPe.

how can I get access to this virtual drive from WinPe or somehow clone it to a physical drive?

the incomplete volume is only 500GB and is shown as RAW in diskpart.

thanks in advance for any suggestions!


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