guys please please help me
2 of the three hard disks crashed and started glowing orange and the server started beeping
i wouldn't care so much but i was in the middle of the backup, had deleted all the old stuff and the new backup failed during the crash
i shut everything down to let it and me cool off
so I have no backup on media, and it wont let me reboot the server
it says
1 logical drive found on host adaptor
1 logical drive failure
1 logical drive handled by BIOS
please help me, im freaking out as its 2 years worth of work
Im so stupid on things like this and there is no hardware or software support, they just brought everything new and expect me to handle it as I am the general office girl as they are too cheap to pay a professional

Hello Helplessmaiden,

Do you know how the disks are configured? Do you know if they use RAID at all?

If your not using RAID 1 (mirrored disks), and you have no backup of your data, you'll be unlikely to be able to retrieve that data since one of your disks have failed. Your only hope is to send that disk to a data recovery company such as Rapid Data Recovery

Hi mad monkey
thanks so much for replying, I have not been able to sleep in fear of being sacked
how can I find out if its a RAID?

stickers on the server unit unit itself
Dell poweredge 1800
Model SMM01
Service Tag SN is 8QMP02Z

The hard drive
ATLAS 10k V
3.5 Series
73GB
Ultra320 SCSi
8J073J002075E
HDD SN J209GBJK
DP/N OGDO84
RPM 10k
DS/n SG OGDO84-24951-5BR-AOPL
F/W: JNZY
REV AOO

I was on holiday when they decided to revamp everything, have no idea how it is configured but pulled out the hard drive to get the info above, does it help? I have on I.T. training and am learning things ad hoc which is crazy as they want me to manage the network on top of my normal job so unhappy think I will get sacked

I've just been told that I am not allowed to send the hard drives to an external company.

Then they are not facing reality--
if that HD got hot enough to "glow red"-- the bearings are gone. You cannot acess data on a hd platter that won't spin... not even with laboratory equipment... as far as I know.
There is a desperation trick I know of that involves putting the drive in a freezer-- in the very faint hope that the platters could be accessed one more time-- for long enough to recover critical files.
--for a company depending on that drive for business purposes-- it would require a miracle for it to work.