Hi,

On Friday I accidentally pulled the sata lead from one of the 4 hard drives in my raid array. I didn't notice that I had done this until the next morning when my server wouldn't boot, and came up with the generic error

Waiting for device /media/STORAGE.
Continue waiting, or press S or M etc.
I turned it off, found the loose cable, and plugged it back in, restarted the computer, still unable to find the device, so went into the manual recovery section. I accessed mdadm, and left it for 8 hours to rebuild the broken array.

Now, it still won't boot. I have used a liveCD and can see the array fine, but it cannot seem to find the partition on there.

To further complicate matters, the home folders are stored on the array, so I am unable to actually launch the system at all.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to recover the data? Or, how I can move the home folder location back to the system drive, so I can actually boot into the system to try further commands.

Many Thanks

Alexander



Specs:
4 x 1TB Hitachi sata drives in Raid5 array
1 x 40GB samsung ide system drive
1GB ram
2.4GHz P4 processor
Ubuntu Server Edition 10.04