Windows 2000 Advanced Server Issue

Okay this is a tricky one for me, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Situation: Have a Win 2000 Adv Server, OS was installed on a 10G hard drive that the controller failed on. So, I pulled the hard drive installed a new one and reinstalled Wiin 2000 Adv Server. (no back up): Set up Active Directory, It was the only tree in the domain, set up dns just like it was before. Now here is the problem, the 3 40GB hard drives that where in the server for storage were all dynamic disk and since I have replaced the disk that contained the OS when I go into disk management the drives are grayed out. They still show as dynamic disk, but with no size given, and the only option available is to convert to basic. Now I know that all data will be lost once I do this, because I did one, and then it required me to format the drive. Is the any way I can get these other two drives to show there properties and save the data?

 

What hardware platform?

 

Thank anyway Newt, got it all fixed, ran dmdiag in verbose mode, say the error in the mbr and did a little work on it. Runs like a champ now.

 

Great. I've seen some IBM servers with their RAID stuff that would behave that way at times - thus the hardware question. But if fixing the mbr did it for you, excellent.

 

RAID

In a network environment, RAID can be a life saver. Had a boot drive fail that was part of a RAID 5 set. Thank goodness the drive was hot swappable. Recieved the new drive, popped it in and in a matter of a few minutes the new drive was rebuilt. Fearing the new drive wouldn't boot, I let it go for about 3 weeks until a reboot was needed. Rebooted just fine!!!!! Saved me a lot of frustration, not to mention my hide (as the server is part of a critical network).